Stacking Stones

Adding a Stone Accent to any Landscape

I stacked smooth water-rounded stones atop a wall. It inevitably falls and I do it again…

Stacking stones, with the smallest one on top, is an age-old global tradition that taps into our universal need to leave a mark, however small, for eternity.

Loren Eiseley, an eminent author who wrote about humanity’s place in the natural world, noted our “fondness for the building of stone alignments, dolmens, and pyramids” in his book All the Strange Hours, saying it “is an unconscious ‘ancient heritage.”