Life Quote by Stephen R. Donaldson

“No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds: Through night or day, cathedral or the cave…

— Hermann Hesse

“Stone, sea, forest, city—and every creature that ever lived—all share the same struggle. Being resists unbeing. Order wars against the chaos of dissolution, of…

— Steven Erikson

“The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing…

— C.G. Jung

“Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A…

— Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

“A man's destiny is not written in stone, but in water.”

— Pietros Maneos

“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

“Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective. Or perhaps more aptly put, each of us may hold…

— Dan Simmons

“A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are…

— Penelope Lively

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that…

— Andy Goldsworthy

“On Legacy: "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." — Pericles”

— Oriss Soleyenni

“The sphere of reality never changes into something else; Yet blessings, vows, actions, and natural laws Cause oceans of realms to appear.”

— Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

“The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone”

— Abraham Verghese