“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.” KnowsFirstsMayLightSpiritualFallWaterSpaceWonderRocksPaintingShapesAspectStonesGreenComplexesForestsCommandGoldenPerceiveValleysDelicateCompellingSunriseSoarSculptureThunderCliffsExceedWhisperingGlitterPersuasiveColossalEdificeDomesGraniteYosemiteFlowing Water Author:Ansel Adams
“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
“Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.” IfsThinkingFirstsMadeInspirationWould BeMotivationGuyStonesValleysAutismGeneticsSpearsSiliconSilicon ValleyAspergers Author:Temple Grandin
“Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.” WorldFirstsLittlesLongLastsSocietyOffersCreaturesStonesSeriesHillsPushingOur WorldValleysReposeUprisingMolesRidgesSisyphus Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” SpaceWonderStonesGreenGoldenValleysSunriseWhisperingGlitterEdificeDomesYosemite Author:Ansel Adams
“The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.” NightDarknessSunBloodCrimeStonesDawnValleysPreyLambsStains Author:Khalil Gibran
“The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast stone brigades during the ice age; they have been torn from the hills, recruited from the mountaintops, and marshaled on the plains and in the valleys; and now the elemental war is over, there they lie waging a gentle but incessant warfare with time and slowly, oh, so slowly, yielding to its attacks!” Has BeensWarAgeScienceLyingRocksBattleStonesIceHillsGentleGrayValleysWarfareTornVeteranElementalsIncessantIce Age Book:John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist Source: John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist