Branches Quote by Conrad Aiken

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

— Adelaide Crapsey

“Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you.…

— Eckhart Tolle

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

— Eckhart Tolle

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses…

— Charles Dickens

The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams…

— Conrad Aiken

“In the tense silence the continual buzzing of the horseflies was the only audible sound, that and the constant rain beating down in the…

— László Krasznahorkai

“From the vast, invisible ocean of moonlight overhead fell, here and here, a slender, broken stream that seemed to plash against the intercepting branches…

— Ambrose Bierce

“My mind gets caught up in the world,becoming so disconnected and lost,you find guidance from ghosts that have no direction and only aim to…

— Tyler Hawkins

And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked…

— Alberto Manguel

“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little we are…

— Virginia Woolf

When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you.…

— Thomas Merton

Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.

— Dave Beard