S
itting on a high naked mountain top and overlooking a wide expanse, I can say to myself: here you rest on solid ground, that reaches to the deepest places on earth. No new layer, no piled up rubble have been laid between you and the very core. You do not go, like in every fruitful valley, over unattended graves. These peaks have not produced anything alive, nor have they swallowed anything alive, they are pre life and after life. In this very moment as the earths gravity and forces work equally upon me, as the forces of the sky pull me closer,
I am taken to great heights of natural

meditation, as the human spirit experiences everything, a calm transcendence descends on me that I cannot resist.

About granite!                                    JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE - 1784