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Quotes About Communication

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
~ Rudyard Kipling
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
~ Paul Tillich
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
~ Terence McKenna
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.
~ Bruno Munari
You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.
~ D.T. Suzuki
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
~ Niels Bohr
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
~ Paul Cezanne
The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.
~ Paul Stamets
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.
~ Dale Spender
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.
~ Kenneth Burke
No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
~ Mark Twain
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
~ Benjamin Lee Whorf
We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
~ Salman Rushdie
Gossip is nature's telephone.
~ Sholom Aleichem
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.
~ John Lubbock
[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.
~ Claire McCaskill