Peter Zumthor

You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.

Swiss Architect

Bruce Sterling

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

American Writer

Tommy Caldwell

I am at a climbing area called the Wendenstock in Switzerland. This area has some of the best quality multi-pitch climbing I have seen on limestone. There is about a two-hour approach on one of the steepest grass slopes I have ever seen. The setting is amazing.

American Athlete

Sabine Baring-Gould

Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.

English Clergyman

Chris Martin

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

American Musician

Jack Horner

I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

American Scientist

Limestone forms from marine organisms' remains, imbuing it with historical significance.

Geological Origin

Limestone is valued in construction for its durability and aesthetic appeal.

Construction Material

Because it's used in iconic structures, limestone can be a symbol of heritage.

Cultural Landmark

 in trouble it's time for artistic synergistic life support living sea sculptures using bio Rock mineral accretion technology by running low voltage current through seawater the limestone minerals abundant in the ocean deposit onto metal and the resulting surface is a natural substrate for

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 houses building furniture building halls billing in assembling buildings with limestone and wood that's the family business the Nazareth region also provides clues to Jesus's level of education and his knowledge of the world the language of

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 but there are some great ideas to help us get there. Cement manufacturing also produces greenhouse gas emissions by burning fossil fuels to heat the limestone. Heating the limestone with clean electricity or alternative fuels instead

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 his generation he always has a plan to go somewhere that you didn't even know had rock climbing or you didn't even know existed some of the most interesting stuff i've ever seen in the world sort of jagged limestone peaks

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 these limestone karsts are some of the most beautiful rock formations in the world you go into a landscape like this and it affects you and it changes you as a person and it inspires you as a

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 There's something about caves -- a shadowy opening in a limestone cliff that draws you in. As you pass through the portal between light and dark, you enter a subterranean world --

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 topped by a mouth covered in stinging tentacles. To protect their soft bodies and add support, the polyps secrete limestone skeletons, or calicles. Corals are mega builders.

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 limestone shelf known as the bahama banks the bahamas were named by the spanish baja ma means shallow sea these waters offer good visibility and protection from danger

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 of these hills looks like this said words limestone when the driller drill all goes well for me he said Bamberger one place up here on the top my bit

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 and cuba is their stronghold they're nimble climbers and have long whiskers to help them feel their way around the limestone alleys in the dark