“But what remains to these stones is their eloquent ability to deliver the message common to all funerary architecture, from marble tomb to rough wooden roadside shrine — namely, ‘Remember.’ …The fear of forgetting anything precious can trigger in us the wish to raise a structure, like a paperweight to hold down our memories.”

– Alain de Botton,
speaking of Pentre Ifan,
the Neolithic burial marker
in western Pembrokeshire in the book, 
The Architecture of Happiness