Grass Quote by Mark Twain

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

— Paul Theroux

This ground is not the rock I thought it to be.

— Tool

There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.

— Douglas Tompkins

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried…

— Avicenna

What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

— Ovid

“The Glacier Express shows that for the Swiss the mountains are a challenge rather than a barrier, there to be tunnelled under and driven…

— Diccon Bewes

“The train continued on its way to Rīga. I could not peel my eyes from the window. On some hillock, an old friend from…

— Melānija Vanaga

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of…

— John Burroughs

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

— Diogenes Laertius

When I grew up, when I was playing in Iceland during the summer, we would play on gravel. It would be a treat for…

— Eidur Gudjohnsen