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“Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.”

Self Together Sound Loss Wind Bird Gains Wave Self Realization Realization Beach Settling Transition Hinduism Together Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.”

Heart Song Sound Tree Wind Masters Bird Understood Rivers Scholar Wind In The Trees

Book:The Song of the Bird

Source: The Song of the Bird

“Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.”

Ifs Feels Kind Used Spirit Song Sound Sides Animal Crazy Dog Bird Cat Legs Woods Familiar Pet Toenails

Author:Sylvia Browne

“There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.”

Heart America Sound Voice Silence Morning Fields Strange Spring Bird Areas Towns Harmony Lays Woods Dawn Score Stillness Surroundings Chorus Eco Marshes Blight

Author:Rachel Carson

“It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.”

People World Done Action Sound Voice Silence Enemy Morning Fields Spring Bird Lays Woods Dawn Streams Score New Life Rebirth Witchcraft Dove Chorus Robins Lifeless Marshes Wrens

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.”

Thinking Wells Made Turns Waiting Sound Sleep Loneliness Cry Poet Clothes Bird This Life Ashamed Yellow Locks Steam Drawers Polaroids

Author:Conor Oberst

“It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.”

Has Beens Today Certain Dies Sound Levels Groups Bird Wings Species Reasoning Ancestor Inheritance Flew Dinosaurs

Author:David M. Raup

“Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him...Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.”

Knows World Two Night Sound Voice Born Divine Flower Bird Red Unions Rose Species Length Mates Forbidden Divine Love Petals Nightingales Red Rose

Author:Susan Kay

“I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of water over rocks down below, cicadas rattling a chorus off in the distance. All sounds of the world carrying on like it always had. So much could change or be lost, and still, the rest of the world went on like it was nothing. It didn't seem wrong, but it didn't seem right either. I'd gone on today like it was nothing. I'd laughed and felt happy and forgotten for a little while that this was now a world without my brother in it.”

World Littles Stills Seems Eye Today Lost Felt Sound Water Gone Tree Rocks Brother Bird Distance Forgotten Tiny My Brother Laughed Occasional Chorus Carrying On Cicadas

Author:Jessi Kirby

“I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Stories Reading Sound Tree Stage Painting Bird

Author:Ali Banisadr

“.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.”

Humans Reason Language Sound Community Love Is Poet Self Love Singing Bird And Love

Author:Sharon Olds

“It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.”

Art Hard Play Sound Player Bird Exotic Geese Strangling Bagpipes

Author:Tom Waits

“The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.”

Sound Bird Cages Forks Bird Cage

Author:Thomas Beecham

“I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.”

“Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.' Giving is indeed a very good source of happiness! One of the best treasures a man can give to someone is a good and sound idea; because birds can ascend into the sky only with wings, and men, only with good and sound ideas!”

Men Giving Doe Ideas Happiness Sound Sky Masters Source Bird Wings Very Good Possession Treasure Source Of Happiness Laos Lao Tzu

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.”

Source: THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI, THE STORY OF AVIATION, THE SWIMMING POOL, KISS ME AGAIn, STRANGER, RIVETS, ADVENTURES IN TWO WORLDS, THE SILENT WORLD, SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT

“I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.”

Song Sound Tree Wind Bird Shuffle Woodland Wind In The Trees

Author:Jason Mraz

“I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what- nots. But the windows are always open and you can hear the crickets, birds, chickens, and even the sound of rain hitting the studio. The farm is a great place to hang out in, learn from and create music.”

Sound Fronts Computer Bird Rain Window Guitar Finals Studios Chickens Hanging Out Farms Hitting Cricket Vocal Files Sound Of Rain

Author:Jason Mraz

“The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.”

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…