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Quotes About Silence

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.
~ Robert Bly
Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!
~ Éliphas Lévi
I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.
~ Devon Werkheiser
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
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
~ Gustave Flaubert, November
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
~ Carl Sandburg
The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it
~ Ted Trueblood
The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.
~ Nancy Newhall
Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.
~ H. W. L. Poonja
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
~ Thomas Cole
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
~ Mother Teresa
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
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~ Mother Teresa
In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.
~ Jean Klein
Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.
~ Beverly Engel
Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
~ Khalil Gibran
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
~ Annie Besant
The sound of water says what I think.
~ Zhuangzi
A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.
~ Eckhart Tolle
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
Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
~ Annie Dillard
Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.
~ Yosa Buson
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
~ Edward Abbey