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“I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.”

Looks Felt Sound Sea Noble Premonition

Author:H. M. Tomlinson

“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 artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.”

World Feels Important Artist Sound Differences Sea Green Colour Attending

Author:Eric Maisel

“Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.”

Light Sound Sea Blind Possessed Inward Strands Odyssey Iliad Swelling Bards

Book:The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume

“I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and movement of the water and sky, by the sounds and scents and gentle stirrings that were all about me.”

Remember Sound Water Sea Sky Movement Materials Rivers Fishes Boat Evening Gentle Colour Lakes Fishing Scent Realised Stirring Good Evening

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.”

Source: A River Runs Through It

“Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.”

Play Left Parent Sound Forever Cutting Sea Middle Rivers Depth Fishes Boat Fearless Lakes Fishing Tails Sweetest Rushing Mute Mingling

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart”

Heart Earth Form Sound Water Sea Movement Return Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Infinity Veins Variation

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make; they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.”

Ifs Seems Care Sound Water Sea Rivers Fishes Following Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Idle Splashing

Author:Wendell Berry

“The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.”

Humans Sound Sides Sea Ocean Eternal Perception Edges Tendencies Human Thought

Book:Among the Isles of Shoals

Source: Among the Isles of Shoals

“As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.”

Wells Children Stills Sound Sea Links Shore Shells

Book:The Archetypal Imagination

Source: The Archetypal Imagination

“I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.”

Sound Sea Missing Smell Beach Miami

Author:Genesis Rodriguez

“The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.”

People Real Energy Sound Rooms Effort Groups Sea Like You Train Lions Group Effort

Author:Feist

“Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.”

Men Should Made Grows Stuff Sound Heard Sea He Man Storm Rainbow Iridescent

Book:The Plumed Serpent

Source: The Plumed Serpent

“One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.”

Seems Sound Results Silence Sea Feet Strange Mark Winter Ghost Snow Substance Atmosphere Sand Cracks Garments Evoke Whispering Disagreeable Spooky Winter Snow

Book:Bleak House

Source: Bleak House

“[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .”

Ifs Humans Doe Two Eye Sound Human Beings Consciousness Sea Minutes Reader Explanation His Eyes Awkward Puzzled Compact

Book:The Magic of Shirley Jackson

Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson

“Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.”

Men God Dies Stuff Sound Heard Sea Eternity Rebirth

Book:The Plumed Serpent: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: The Plumed Serpent: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing.”

Soul Joy Sound Behinds Sea Crime Quiet Beats Moved Longing Rhythm Thread Toil Orchestra Mazes

Author:Jeanette Lee

“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…