Alive Quote by Yvon Chouinard

“We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.” quote by Yvon Chouinard — Download Open image

“We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.”

Yvon Chouinard

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