Living rock can refer to dwarf succulent plants resembling stones, especially of the genera:
- Ariocarpus
- Astrophytum
- Aztekium
- Epithelantha
- Geohintonia
- Lithops
- Lophophora
- Obregonia
- Turbinicarpus
- Strombocactus
In phrases such as "hewn from the living rock", it refers to rock-cut architecture.
Famous quotes containing the words living and/or rock:
“So, when the last and dreadful Hour
This crumbling Pageant shall devour,
The TRUMPET shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And MUSICK shall untune the Sky.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“There is no Holy One like the LORD, no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 2:2.