“Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.” UseDreamDesireBeliefMemoriesEnvironmentObjectsSorrowQuietHumblePassingPassingsYour DreamsSincerityOur EnvironmentOur MemoriesExpress Yourself Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.” EnvironmentQuietSubtle Author:Michael Caine
“I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.” ThinkingWayLongI CanImportantIdeasReasonSoundSilenceEnvironmentFocusPeriodsQuietSettingSettingsParadoxComposingLong Periods Of TimeSilence Love Author:Tod Machover
“For me it's the hypnotic simplistic reduction of hooks into some form of prayer wheel or something. I really appreciate people who can work in those quiet environments making really precious latticework like lace in a weaving but, for me, I like it a bit more hairy and like psychedelic Peruvian knits or something! You know what I mean? I go into fabric analogies, you know.” PeopleMeanPrayerEnvironmentQuietAppreciateHookPsychedelic Author:Tim Hecker
“"Acoustic ecologist" is basically a fancy name for someone who tries to become a better listener. Not just listening to those thoughts, ideas, and productions of human intention, but listening to places - whether it's an urban environment, residential, industrial, or even the farthest corner of the world, in one of our last great quiet places where we can listen to the pure sounds of nature without any human-caused noise intrusions.” WorldTryingEnvironmentListeningQuietIntentionUrbanJust ListenQuiet Place Author:Gordon Hempton
“The most important thing for our species is, before it speaks, to listen to its environment. That has a higher priority in any species' survival. We need to be listening to our environment - in other words, restoring the quiet - not just to our natural areas, but also to towns like Portland, Maine.” ImportantSpeakNaturalEnvironmentListeningQuietSurvivalPrioritiesOur Environment Author:Gordon Hempton
“Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.” ThinkingInspirationalSometimesMomentsMotivationalEnvironmentQuietMountainEnvironmentalForestsIntrovertEcoSeashore Author:Bill Bradley
“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” WayEnoughStoriesSpeakNatureNaturalPayAttentionEnvironmentLandAwarenessQuietGardenPatiencePatientPay AttentionNature And EnvironmentNature BeautyInspirational NatureNature And BeautyThe Wild NatureNature's BeautyInspiring NatureBeing NaturalChildren And NatureTime And Patience Author:Linda Hogan