"Granite eschews the quiet, uneventful regions of (the) Earth. For the source of heat is subduction: Granites are the sweat of earth movements."
-Richard Fortey
"Granites are the sweat of Earth movements...." Peoetic prose for a most poetic reality. This makes my heart smile.
"In the end, forces of erosion will win: they always do."
-Richard Fortey
(Of Scotish landscape)"Somehow, the landscape feels ancient, worn down, as if it had seen it all before, and could only now manage a hilly shudder when once it might have drawn itself up into great mountains".
- Yes, Richard Fortey
Prose so bravely giving life to an entity clearly without life; prose so dauntingly showing that there, however, might just be life...in some manner.
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