Quotes from John O”Donohue on Stone: 

 

“Stone is perfectly silent. The stillness and endurance of stone focuses in an intense way the unobtrusive eternity of the earth....stone stands as the tabernacle of memory....The presence of memoria in stone is mediated presence.....it calls and engages those who take time and are sensitive in attention....stonescape is full of shapes and lines that would have enthralled a Miro or a Max Ernst. It nourishes the heart and opens foundations in the mind....wrapped in stillness, stone continues to tranfigure and praise the silence of time.” 

 

(from Four Elements: Reflections on Nature by John O’Donohue)