Mircea Eliade Quote

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1959) - ISBN: 9780156792011