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“Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.”

Men Needs Should Mind Soul Nature Towns Silent Woods Wilderness Echoes

Author:John Updike

“A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.”

World Nature Effort Secret Periods Breaths Silent Wicked Wilderness Retreat Recreation Escaping Recourse Wicked World

Author:Benton MacKaye

“A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.”

Long Moments Light Nature Church Lines Dark Cities Sun Wall Cold Glory Bird Shining Silent West Winter Clouds Hills Streams Gloom Airy City Walls

Book:Martin Chuzzlewit

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit

“At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.”

Mind Mean Doe Important Reality Certain Nature Silence Silent Seeking Awakened Silent Mind

Book:When the Chocolate Runs Out

Source: When the Chocolate Runs Out

“As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.”

Men Way Lasts Law Water Nature Loses Consciousness Quality Source Return Ocean Infinite Silent Depth Smallest Detached Drop Of Water

Book:The Way of Peace

Source: The Way of Peace

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

“And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.”

Source: Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”

Knows World Feels God Night Courses Nature Sky Silent Spread Scales Wheels Night Sky Omnipotence

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.”

Littles Moving Nature Cities Feet Cat Silent Fog Harbors Inspirational Rain Cat Feet

Author:Carl Sandburg

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.”

“We need silence to be able to touch souls.”