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“The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.”

Mind Humans Eye Language Stars Difficult Written Air Wind Ears Clouds Substance Human Mind Human Eyes Written Language Spoken Language

Book:The Wilderness Journeys

Source: The Wilderness Journeys

“The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.”

Wells Different Moving Language Sound Voice Air Tree Wind Shapes Summer Fingers Tone Theme Dry Autumn Strings Harsh Leafs Filling Harps Murmuring

Book:The Glory of the Garden

Source: The Glory of the Garden

“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”

Thinking Writing Art Book Would Be Earth Together Artist Language Support Air Subjects Style Invisible Thoughtful Attachment Exterior

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.”

Men Use Language Air Blind Excuse Vain Height Collectives Skyscraper

Book:Canción de cuna y otros poemas

Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas

“As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's biggest third-class city I could pass unnoticed. I spoke the language. I was familiar with the currency. I could drink the water. I could almost breathe the air, late April air, compounded of interesting hydrocarbons.”

“Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.”

Giving Language Moral Air Morality Ethics Aim Instruments Satan Respectability

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.”

“We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it speaks, be it external or internal, we must for ever be on our guard, ever mobilized, ever vigilant, always ready to spring at its throat. In all this we march together. Not only do we march and strive shoulder to shoulder at this moment, under the fire of the enemy on the fields of war or in the air, but also in those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and the dignity of man.”

Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963

“Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For me, the primary focus must be words, sentences, paragraphs.”

Different Character Language Issues Focus Air Balls Sentences Primaries Narrative Inseparable Paragraph Different Languages

Author:Dana Spiotta

“Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.”

Ifs Feels Years Firsts Has Beens Beautiful Certain House Language Sound Air Months Lessons

Author:Renee Fleming

“Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.”

Past Speak Language Impossible Air Translations Strategic Air Power Idiom

Author:Alexander P. de Seversky

“There is something new in the air. There is, there is a - a hunger for an open, non-dogmatic, form of Christian faith and practice, which adapts itself to a rapidly changing world; and speaks to that world the message of Jesus Christ. And a freedom to rediscover some of the language of the tradition now that's it's not handed down to us, you know, with a strict framework of doctrinal, fixed structures.”

Knows World Christian Form Jesus Speak Language Christ Practice Air Messages Jesus Christ Tradition Structure Hunger Fixed Something New Strict Framework Christian Faith Dogmatic

Author:Philip Clayton