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“The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.”

Men Firsts Sound Silence Down And Lays Spread Woods Thanks Temples Roof Solemn Lofty Framed Anthem Grove Vaults Supplication

Author:William C. Bryant

“And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.”

Sound Mountain Musical Woods Wander Melancholy Bells Chasing Sabbath Dell

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.”

Has Beens Stills Bigs Might Sound Born Silence Woods Staring Sat Dialect

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“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

“I never heard a wood thrush until I was a grown man, though I must have been surrounded by them every spring. Each year I discover new sights and sounds to teach me how blind and deaf I must still be.”

Men Years Has Beens Stills Sound Teach Heard Spring Sight Blind Woods Deaf Grown Man Sight And Sound Thrush

Author:Louis J. Halle

“There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.”

“If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.”

Ifs Different Earth Form Sound Stones Seeking Woods

Author:Wumen Huikai

“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

“Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.”

Thinking Different Sometimes Sound Change Fire Paper Died Rose Woods Dry

Book:Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

Source: Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

“what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.”

Fear Sound Animal Half Knowing Seeing Tree Woods Not Knowing Dusk Sirens Stumps

Author:Edna O'Brien

“I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.”

People Thinking Firsts Humans Sometimes Night Sound Voice Water Crowds Woods Human Voice Sound Of Water

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though - that's a different proposition.”

Ifs Stills Different Fall Games Sound Watches Tree Baseball Woods Propositions Baseball Games

Author:Carson Cistulli

“And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.”

Sound Break Fire Alive Bed Moon Spring Rose Rounds Woods Rings Climbing Belts Bud Briars Amethyst Crocuses Rose Buds

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.”

Wanted Given Sound Vision Industry Amount Woods Given Up Music Industry Cabins Oregon Cabin In The Woods

Author:Skylar Grey

“I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the woods. I don't exactly sneak off in the middle of the night, but I like to be in a place where no one can reach me by phone or e-mail.”

Littles Night Sound My Own Middle Phones Woods Mail Sneak Middle Of The Night

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.”

Sometimes Sound Woods Shotguns

Book:Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960

Source: Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960

“Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.”

Way Want Mind Kind Reason Night Values Easy Sound Heard Understood Woods Graves Ghost Grieving Every Night Halloween Moors Rest Easy

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians.”

Hands Sound Minutes Musician Reflection Ears Woods Impression Spots Bored Visuals Endeavor Concerts Sequence Diligent Fiddle

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“[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