“Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.” TwoFeelingsNightHouseFeltBlackCasesBearsStonesHuntersExhilarationVermontBrotherly Author:Edward Hoagland
“The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.” FirstsEnoughProblemWould BeParentSidesBearsBedDemandMountainSolutionsStonesCastsMilesAgentsValleysRipDisruptive Book:The Cause of an Ice Age Source: The Cause of an Ice Age
“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.” LittlesPersonsWarStatesIndividualPayPovertyDoubtBearsCivilizationUnderstoodStonesPropertyPossessionBurdenCornersChiefsNo DoubtConsiderationExpensesEntitledExceptionalImpatientFaminePestilence Book:Essays, English and American Source: Essays, English and American
“You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.” TryingSaidBodyVoiceBearsUnderstoodStonesWeightCastsHeartlessBronze Book:The lives of the heart Source: The lives of the heart
“Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.” WorldLooksEarthGrowsAnimalSunAliveTreeObjectsBearsMountainRiversStonesPlantDeer Author:Leslie Marmon Silko
“With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.” LifeLongDoneHandsLightWishHoursFeetReturnBearsBuiltStonesLaysBurdenHeatBleedingLong Day Author:Matthew Arnold
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; 40 With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre The streams stand still, the stones admire; The listening savages advance, The world and lamb around him trip The bears in aukward measures leap, And tigers mingle in the dance The moving woods attended as he played And Rhodope was left without a shade.” KnowsMenWorldArtStillsMovingLeftHeavenSecretMusicHe ManListeningBearsStonesWoodsNobleStrikesAdmireManageMortalsStreamsLeapShadeSavagesTigersFuryHintsEloquenceLambsTremblingImpartKindlesOrpheus Author:Joseph Addison
“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.” WholeEarthLyingNationsChristianitySupportBuildingBearsStonesWindowWeightGloriousUnseenDespisedGargoyles Author:John Owen