Quotes from Jane Brox

Soon now, the faint tinkling of a broken filament will become another sound of another century.

To learn to read, after all, is a descent into silence.

Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: The production of petroleum has now become of such commercial and social importance to the world that if it were suddenly to cease no other known substance could supply its place, and such an event could not be looked upon in any other light than of a widespread calamity.

Silence is not acoustic. It is a change of mind, a turning around. —John Cage