About This Quote
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. The author of this quote simply explains that water is the best way to carve out stone. Water does not do it by force, but rather through persistence and time. At first, it seems as if this is a reasonable idea.
However, we know that water does not just sit on things forever and expect them to change. But it will go away eventually and leave whatever it was on alone. When we think of soaking rock, we usually think of a hard surface that resists all efforts.
But as the water continues to drip, those same stones will begin to change little by little until they are ready to be carved out and changed completely.
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