The stones that made up the Stony Grey Soil of Patrick Kavanagh's poem about the Monaghan countryside were in fact gold rocks glistening under the surface. So there was gold in them there hills ...

The ground around the ship has a layer of granular gray soil. Only beneath it — in places ... control Saturday night know better. They were stone silent, some of them pacing or kneading their ...

Walking up the sweltering, steep slopes of Mo‘orea’s gray volcanic peaks ... There, at ankle level, meticulously stacked, moss-shrouded stone blocks outline an ancient way of life on the ...