“Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.” LoveLongHandsTearsParticularFlowerLoversBedStonesIndiaFilledEmbracePlantPreparedRaisedFleshShouldersServantSoilPotThickTendernessIdleSighAmusementCarpetMoonlightTemperatureFeverSilkKnotsSparkleBalconiesPrecious StonesBoudoir Author:Gustave Flaubert
“Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.” YearsMayLongEarthLife IsSeaStonesRootsBusyMilesBeachStreamsSoilThrowingCoastFloatsMineralsStrandsGraniteBoulders Author:Bill Mollison
“When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?” DoeDifferencesStonesGravesSoilCovered Author:Milan Kundera
“Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.” WorldLittlesSoulBodySongDiesLeftBornLove IsBehindsMessagesStonesMovedFruitGreedSeedsSoilMilkReverenceLeft BehindShiftingLives Of Others Book:Island of the World: A Novel Source: Island of the World: A Novel
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.” WellsHeartGrowsDifficultNatureEducationKnownSadStonesPrejudiceFirmSoilWeedWell KnownCultural DiversityConventionalityTolerance And Diversity Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre
“The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.” BigsGirlPathDegreesGardenStonesSightBreathsCaughtSoilPretty GirlFingernailsWarp Book:East of Eden Source: East of Eden
“A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their roots. Where the wind smells of game and wildflowers." "Why, that was lovely, Lord Bill. Do you ever write poetry? Something for your blueblood lady?" "No." "She doesn't like poetry?" "Leave it." Hehe. "Oh, so you have a lady. How interes--” WritingSaidGamesGrowsLordTreeCenturyExpressionWindStonesRootsBillsSmellLovelyForestsDrySoilAutumnTallCarpetWildflowersTall Trees Book:Bayou Moon Source: Bayou Moon