I'd rather be a pebble than a grain

well, ya know, I had this book about geology and he explained the dif between a grain of sand and a pebble, etc. went but it was by size....

I think it's important to acknowledge the grain of sand's individuality and freedom of choice. It may become a pebble the minute it WANTS to become one. But becoming a rock is an entirely different matter altogether. The pebble may only become a rock once it's trashed a riverside hotel room at least 3 times. The roll status comes after they've become "Keith Richards Like" due to excess and it's only when full blown osteporosis sets in to the point of immobility that they remain rooted in the one spot and become a mountain. Range status is actually far more complicated. The mountain may only become a range once several others have gone through a similar process. The issue with this situation though is that others keep dropping off like flies along the way and never actually make it even to mountain stage! This pretty much explains why ranges are few and far between. If you ask me, staying as a grain of sand or pebble at best seems rather appealing. Procreating with Pamela Anderson fits in there somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember the specifics.

Haven't you got this backwards? Surely it starts with mountains and ends as sand. Or a you in the habit of making mountains out of molehills. A very useful occupation as it gets great soil and your plants will grow well. the only problem with this is that there is no ground on mountains, (you can't fall of ground but you can fall of mountains. This will be confirmed in triplicate by Dory and two others). So you will have to plant things which don't need ground to grow in.

......and the range (as we call a stove over here) becomes a cooker and the fish is no more. (Having been cooked and eaten) LOL Just had to drop in and leave those little bon mots when I saw this in my inbox.

range rhymes with strange.. sorry,but that's how my mind works sometimes...

Some good questions there. It reminds me of the Hugh Grant film, The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain. He plays a cartographer who has to announce to a Welsh village whether their mound is indeed a hill or a mountain. No doubt there are official definitions somewhere for all these things, but sadly I don't have the answers. Or a clue!

what after a range???,maybe it will become a volcano and explode,causing destruction in its path.it would be better not to stagnate oneself and become a volcano......

hmmm...I am thinking you have it all backwards pike. The rock crumbles into stones which eventually crumble into pebbles that eventually become little grains of sand. Like us....We start shrinking and then we shrivel and die and by & by we'll just blend into the sand unless of course we get cremated...then we get there quicker.

It's all in your perspective. An ant will think grain of sand is a rock. So the answer to your question would depend on who or what was looking at the objects.

Yeah, this panda really needs spanking, hahaha!~How come the grain of sand become a pebble? I thought the oyster caught the grain & it became a pearl? The pebble was the one supplying the grain as the rocks when rock & rolling gave birth to the pebbles? OK, so the mountains were coughing that explains where the rocks come from. As for the mountains becoming a range, at the speed the mountain is eroding, I'd figure maybe another thousand more years? Haha!~

Hi p1key, Oh dear, are you having one of these days again?, the moles better get to the hills before it turns into a mountain. Hugs. Tamara xxxx

The sand become a pebble and so forth with time, S. Just like a human being, with time we come to gain more broader insights, we become more understanding. We tend to grow with wisdom and intellect. Our knowledge grows as we grow older...lol...and age progresses more, we start to deteriorate again and the cycle goes back. lol..I know you are aware of this. Cheers and happy mylotting.

I can give you only an answer.When a rock falls from a hill it creats a thundering sound.That's a roll.

I suppose my best response is the grain of sand matters to the pebble, and the pebble matters to the rock, and the rock matters to the hill, and the hill matters to the mountain, and the mountain matters to the range. We forget at times that it is the small things that do matter to people, and sometimes more then the large grand things. There was a book put out among motivational writers in which the slogan was don't sweat the small stuff. Though I was hooked for a time on such things, I realized sooner that the small things do mean a great deal to people. I know they mean a great deal to me. It's in those beautiful sunsets, those kind words, that little thank you from a passing neighbor, the smile from your child, the first green seen at spring, the small words that let you know you matter to another. All these lead to the next stage, next stage, until as we sit back in our older age and look down from the range we see all that has made us who we are. Namaste-Anora

Well a grain is free flowing and drifts here and there with the flow of things.. a pebble it takes more to get it to move..so maybe I am a pebble also..

Oh my dear... the answer is so EASY!!!It all occurs when the pigs grow wings and fly and there's a snowstorm in Hades.

I think the real question is how come a pebble can hop over the water if it is thrown right, and not just sink all the time ? And another question that is in dire need of an answer is: when does a mountain become a volcano ?

I have a feeling a grain became a mountain when I succumbed to that last large bag of crisps. I'm being very, VERY good at present, and the only tempting food I allow myself is looking at Grandpa Bob's photographs of cakes and sweets. Usually that keeps me going and satisfies any urge. I just hope calories can't be ingested by osmosis ... if so, I will definitely be morphing into a range any time now ...

When you married it and you realize that you've made a mistake?

Hi P1key! The answer is so simple my friend...as we grow and learn!!! If Not, then we never become pebbles, rocks, mountains or the strong in life! Not a very long explanation I know, but it is What I know!