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“I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.”

Way Heart Sound Tree Sea Singing Ears Hearing Lovely Forests Rough Shells Bark Trunks Sap Sea Shell

Book:A Stone for a Pillow

Source: A Stone for a Pillow

“The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.”

Source: Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse

“What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?”

World Use Girl Sound Party Dying Thousand Twenties Seven Lovely Poison Violin Other Worlds Groaning

Book:The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov

Source: The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov

“A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.”

Sound Voice Sight Harmony Lovely Charm Sweetest Countenance

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.”

Night Stars Sound Walks Flower Rain Woods Lovely Lawns Stirring Dandelions

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!”

Might Sound Music Car Fine Musician Lovely Engines

Author:Jose Bergamin

“There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.”

Way Beautiful Song Sound Nice Impossible Subjects Boring Lovely Contradiction Translate Jane Very Nice

Author:Agnes Varda