He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.... He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.
Quotes about stratum (5 Quotes)
I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire -- thinner than the paper on which it is printed . . .
How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so longthe care of caresthe only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heavenand straight you find a new stratum there.
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit not a fossil earth, but a living earth compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.
Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links Geology assuredly does not reveal any such fine graduated organic chain and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.