Broken Quote by William Butler Yeats

“It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some…

— Anna Comnena

Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

“Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.”

— A.C. Crispin

“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

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who…

— Martial

I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

— Gene Wolfe

“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

Life to the trees sets a pattern in the sky like lion and Goliath did in dinosaur time with the ocean gliding past the…

— Alisha

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

— William Shakespeare

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

“A thousand years earlier, an old nomad lay down in this circle of stone to finally put an end to his migrations. His soul…

— Nicholas Dickner

Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave…

— Swami Vivekananda