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“By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.”

Believe Mean Children Earth I Believe Sound Voice Example Wind Streams Take Time Suggestions Thunder Surf Majestic

Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.”

Sound Doors Harsh Thunder Hinges Recoil Paradise Lost Book 2 Grate Impetuous

Author:John Milton

“Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.”

Two Light Sound Events Movement Creating Illusion Capture Lightning Thunder

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.”

Two Death Sound Thunder Formidable

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!”

Soul God Fall Sound Voice Snow Streams Thunder Meadows Grove

Book:Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge

Source: Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge

“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”

Death Sound Philosophical Thunder Picnics

Author:W. H. Auden