“Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.” StatesScienceSongUnitedSilenceBeautyMorningUnited StatesReturnSpringBirdAreasFilledSilentEnvironmentalPollutionEarly MorningSilent SpringEarly BirdBird Song Author:Rachel Carson
“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.” PeopleIfsBeautifulFacesNightSidesSpaceSilenceBeautyTreeSkyEventsObjectsPaintingFlowerPagesUniqueGainsEmptyNotesCornersSignificantGrassAutumnSignificanceCandleCasualFramed Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?” MovingSilenceBeautyCherishSilence Is Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of thought - and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions. You are drowned in the beauty of a sunrise, of a starry night, of beautiful trees.” IfsStatesEyeAbleBeautifulNightSilenceBeautyMeditationTreeFlowerStandingSilentBarriersCoveredLayersSunriseFlickerBeautiful FlowerStarry NightBeautiful TreesSilent Meditation Author:Rajneesh
“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.” EnjoyNatureCitiesSilenceBeautyArmsWelcomeReach OutSheepDreadCrowdedFleeingHer BeautyCrowded Cities Author:Khalil Gibran
“A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.” LooksDoeMatterPainBeautifulFacesSilenceBeautyMysteryStressTragedyAddFeaturesInwardSymmetry Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.” DiesWishFeltSilenceBeautyMorningGrowingWallSummerGardenWindowEternityGreenRoseCupsBeauty Of LifeFloweringWish To DieGreen Things Author:A. L. Rowse
“I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.” SilenceCompanyBeautySilence IsDelicacyVivacity Book:Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc
“I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.” KnowsSoundSilenceBeautyMusicListeningQuietHearingNoiseWhistlingInnuendoBlackbirds Author:Wallace Stevens
“What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.” GivingRealMightEarthSilenceBeautyTeachTeacherImagineHumilityIntelligenceObligationHolinessCelebrationCourtesyRestorationEducatorEnvironmentalistConnectednessWildnessInspirational TeacherReal Intelligence Author:David W. Orr