Do you remember the sound of sea shell you picked up when you went to a beach?
I think the sound of seashell is kind of a metaphor of the sea sound.
It means like huge ocean's breathing.
We can feel ocean's history from the shell with your visiting memory.
At least for me, when I see stones, I sometimes get them and bring back to home.
I think this is because I would like to store the memory of the place and also would like to feel the history of the earth.
As we saw, human use stones with bunch of meanings.
But still we don't know their history and era.
Even the stone is piece of proof of the earth's life....