I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.
Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
A good intention clothes itself with power.
Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.
No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing them gently.'
Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.