Limestone Quotes

• Si por algún motivo tuviera que restringir todo este escrito a una sola frase, ésta es la que elegiría: La cima del Everest es caliza marina.

  John McPhee

  Motivación, Escritura, Marina

  John McPhee (2000). "Annals of the Former World", p.127, Macmillan

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• En la piedra caliza extraída cerca del lugar Por orden suya estas palabras están talladas: Echa un ojo frío a la vida, a la muerte. ¡Jinete, pasa!

  William Butler Yeats

  Vida, Muerte, Ojo

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). Los tres últimos versos están inscritos en la lápida de Yeats.

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• I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Three, Pieces

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Mi idea de una historia de parque de atracciones es hacer que los aventureros recorran zonas de catástrofe medioambiental. Al fin y al cabo, si toda la Gran Barrera de Coral muere, lo que parece una posibilidad extremadamente viva, ¿qué vas a hacer con toda esa piedra caliza podrida?

  Bruce Sterling

  Ideas, Medio Ambiente, Parques

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• Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill.
  The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face
  Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.

  Allen Tate

  Horse, Leader, Faces

  Allen Tate (1960). “Poems”, New York : Scribner

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• It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Eye

  Anna Quindlen (2002). "Guía breve para una vida feliz", Arrow/Children's (una división del grupo Random House).

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• ¿No es maravilloso que dos de las plantas más sagradas y simbólicas, el olivo y la vid, vivan sobre casi nada, una terraza de piedra caliza, sol y lluvia?

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Rain, Two, Vines

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• Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

  Chris Martin

  Stars, Rocks, Two

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• Cuando los alpinistas de 1953 plantaron sus banderas en la montaña más alta, las colocaron en la nieve sobre los esqueletos de criaturas que habían vivido en el cálido océano claro que la India, avanzando hacia el norte, borró. Posiblemente hasta seis mil metros por debajo del fondo marino, los restos esqueléticos se habían convertido en roca. Este hecho es un tratado en sí mismo sobre los movimientos de la superficie de la tierra. Si por algún motivo tuviera que limitar todo este escrito a una sola frase, elegiría ésta: La cima del Everest es caliza marina.

  John McPhee

  Ocean, Moving, Writing

  "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.

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• The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, Use, Shells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.457, Library of America

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• Echa un ojo frío a la vida, a la muerte Pasa el jinete

  William Butler Yeats

  Vida, Lápida, Ojo

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). Los tres últimos versos están inscritos en la lápida de Yeats.

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• We've had a wonderful, wonderful life together. We've been in many places, we've had the experiences, and now we have the memories. But most of all we have developed the solid knowledge and understanding and background regarding the foundation stones of life, so that we know for a surety that what we are doing [in helping to build the Kingdom of God] is true. Those foundation stones are granite stones; not soft, not limestones. They are granite.

  David B. Haight

  Life, Memories, Knowledge

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• You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.

  Peter Zumthor

  Glasses, House, Skins

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• The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.

  John McPhee

  Marine, Summit, Everest

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• En lugar de sentirnos pobres cuando nos encontramos con un gran hombre, tratemos al recién llegado como a un geólogo viajero que pasa por nuestra finca y nos muestra buena pizarra, o piedra caliza, o antracita, en nuestros pastos de maleza.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.227, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting their good qualities." Asked if he believed all people were kind at their core, he responded, "There is no doubt whatsoever, provided you are able to arouse their inherent goodness." If that sounds like wishful thinking, well, he actually did it.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Vida, Pensamiento, Compasión

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns Briony's heart to stone. Pressure. Pressure is uncomfortable, but so are the gallows. Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric's, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars.

  Franny Billingsley

  Stars, Heart, Moon

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.134, A&C Black

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• El alemán es de piedra, caliza, pudinga, mármol, granito incluso, y así lo es en un grado considerable el inglés, mientras que el francés es de bronce y emite una resonancia metálica con tonos que ni el alemán ni el inglés toleran.

  Bernard Berenson

  Dar, Piedras, Grados

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Technology, Eagles, Ravens

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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• We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?

  Rick Riordan

  Rocks, Gold, World

  Rick Riordan (2010). "The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid, Hyperion.

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• The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Nature, Animal, Cities

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