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“It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.”

Ifs Should Made Seems Felt Sound Tree Color Listening Walking Rhythm Composer

Author:Charles E. Burchfield

“You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments where you are simply delighting. Looking at the trees, just be the look. Listening to the birds, just be a listening ear. Let them reach to your deepest core. Let their song spread all over your being.”

Looks Moments Song Tree Listening Future Bird Ears Spread Core Over You Where You Are Daydreaming Tasting Listening Ear

Author:Rajneesh

“I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!”

Needs Speak Stars Tree Listening Quiet Green Hills Eloquent Mute Thrice Sod

Author:Charles Hanson Towne

“I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.”

People Ifs Believe Stills Sometimes Matter Hard Enough Sound Tree Flower Listening Quiet Bird I Still Believe

Book:In Cold Blood

Source: In Cold Blood

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

Source: Poems

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”

“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.”

Night Sound Hurt Dark Tree Wind Arms Listening Cold Balance Ears Rose Get Up Calculations Skulls Blackness Autistic Reckoning Wind In The Trees

Book:The Road

Source: The Road