White Stone Marked

Famous quotes containing the words white, stone and/or marked:

    Why do we then shun death with anxious strife?
    If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?
    —Joseph Blanco White (1775–1841)

    Let these memorials of built stone music’s
    enduring instrument, of many centuries of
    patient cultivation of the earth, of English
    verse ...
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Our books of science, as they improve in accuracy, are in danger of losing the freshness and vigor and readiness to appreciate the real laws of Nature, which is a marked merit in the ofttimes false theories of the ancients.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)