The city: Is it not the crystallization of human greed and wickedness?
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
It is because of this that all art and all philosophy culminate in their final forms in a crystallization of those values of life that remain forever inexplicable to pure reason; they become religious in the simple, profound sense of that word.
"Poems"
Rainer Maria Rilke
Here he made a great impression on the mind of a young lady who frequented the museum, by the "sermons" that he found "in stones," for he read them out to her, showing that in inorganic nature, so called, could be traced not only laws of decay, that threw into stronger light those laws of life that he had learned to see in vegetation, but those of crystallization.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody