Quote by Mark Twain

“The moving of the boulders was weary and painful work. We came to know every one of the stones by sight and touch, and…

— Ernest Shackleton

“A weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature like Delicate Arch has the curious ability to remind us - like rock and sunlight and…

— Edward Abbey "Desert Solitaire

“...sifting through our thoughts like children going through colored stones -- optimistic, because although some were too dark and some were too sharp, many…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“Then shadows and shapes, shrouded figures, appeared to join him, apparitions, ancient, mythical faces, wise and beautiful, like holy ghosts, shimmering around around him,…

— Peter McKinnon

“…I suddenly discerned at my feet, crouching among the rocks for protection against the heat, the marine goddesses for whom Elstir had lain in…

— Marcel Proust

“The sun, sides bulging, squashed itself between two hills. It sent up a flare of golden light. The sky, patterned with a million tiny…

— Karen Foxlee

“Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them as surrendering…

— Hermann Hesse

“Blue eyes glittered. A shock of golden hair - gone. The dust in the air swirled, coalesced into a thorn-twisted Shaman tattoo.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

“Nothing is clear now. Something must be the matter with my way of viewing things. I have no middle view. Either I fix on…

— Margaret Laurence

“Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“.. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. 'She walked with measured steps,…

— Joseph Conrad

“The rocks were really big around the mountains and at times some rocks seemed as if they had been sculpted by some unknown artist.”

— Avijeet Das