To restore our connection to natural ways, we often have to blend with what is no longer near. We have to use the same potent imagination which has removed the wilderness to find ways to reintegrate small elements of it into our homes.

Stones have centered some of the greatest constructed prayers of the human ages. From Stonehenge to the Mayan temples and European cathedrals, prayers and messages to the gods have been formed from rock. It would be odd to view rock as spiritless when it has so often been chosen to center great monuments of worship.