The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone,
is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
–Bertrand Russell

Blue Stone has been around for a long time. An old picture from Friends of Historic Kingston’s web site.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
–Michelangelo

An old quarry that Michelangelo got stone from

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
–Andy Goldsworthy, Sculptor (b. 1956)

Some of Andy Goldworthy’s work

The body is the substance of the stone.
–George Ripley

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