“Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.” MenMayVoiceHoursAnimalSilenceDarknessBrokenNeighborhoodWildernessNow And ThenDeerDo Not FearWilderCoyotes Book:Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail Source: Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
“Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.” IfsWorldNeedsHeartAnimalSilenceChaosLegsNoiseFlightKneesRefugeDiminishCreepsSmall Animals Author:Barbara Hurd
“I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.” InspirationalI CanMotivationalForceHoursAnimalBehindsSilenceWatchesFireMysterySeaStrangeMountainAncientGrayDelicateSooner Or LaterElephantsReservedEnchantedMountain Peaks Book:African Silences Source: African Silences