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“Could've come like a mighty storm. With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow, quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night to the earth below.”

Earth Night Fall Heaven Fire Sky Quiet Winter Storm Snow Forests Flames Hurricanes Winter Snow Forest Fires

Author:Chris Tomlin

“All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.”

Earth Song Fall Tree Quiet Come Up Woods Glad Forests Over You Bursting Lebanon Cutters

Author:Isaiah

“When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.”

Heart Meditation Solitude Quiet Corners Discrimination Forests Awake Chamber

Author:Ramakrishna

“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools”

Fall Water Dark White Behinds Fool Quiet Silent Woods Forests Leafs Lap Ants Polished Deserted Harbour

Book:Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

“The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in”

World Doe Soul Faces Night Cities Wise Sea Streets Battle Shapes Quiet Draws Shots Horse Trade Dear Bones Forests Gates Camps Pale Bloody Hunters Invited Naps Carts Dear Friend Hounds Warp Weavers

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.”

Ifs Realizing Inspiring Human Nature Quiet Connected Forests Hermits

Author:Alan Watts

“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.”

Thinking Inspirational Sometimes Moments Motivational Environment Quiet Mountain Environmental Forests Introvert Eco Seashore

Author:Bill Bradley

“But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.”

Way Feels Stills Sound Church Like You Quiet Forests Feel Good

Author:Tim O'Brien

“you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.”

Said Two Four Feet Quiet Forests Beloved

Author:Toni Morrison

“If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.”

Ifs Moments Might Happens Tree Quiet Forests Quiet Moments

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old”

Stills Grows Water Secret Quiet Red Gold Silent Forests Hills Apples Valleys Bells Corn

Book:Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)

Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)