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Quotes About Weathering

Civilization balances always on a keen and precarious point, a showman spinning a fine Spode dinner plate on a long dowel slender as a stem of hay. A puff of breath, a moment's lost attention, and it's all gone, crashed to ruination, shards in the dirt. Then mankind retreats to the caves, leaving little behind but obelisks weathering to nubs like broken teeth, dissolving to beach sand.
~ Charles Frazier
Some days my prayer is a rainfall of tears, other days the sunshine of joy, and sometimes it's a sheltering umbrella — but no matter what I'm weathering in my life, my prayer is first and always the infinite horizon of gratitude.
~ Terri Guillemets
Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.
~ Cormac McCarthy
My personal view is the true long-term storage is mineral carbonates, which is some form of accelerated weathering.
~ Klaus Lackner
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
galvanized iron
~ Miss Read