In Patrick Leigh Fermor’s telling of it, the Mani region of Greece comprises two harsh elements: searing sunlight and endless stoniness.  Here, a Maniot sums it up with what appears to be characteristic pithiness.

“When God had finished making the world, he had a sack of stones left over and he emptied it here…”

Source: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, introduction by Michael Gorra, New York: New York Review of Books, 2006 (1958), p. 131

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