Atrophy Quote by Dave Bidini

“A breeze lifted off the ocean and several hundred notes from the wind chimes tinkled like ice shaken in silver cups. They altered the…

— Pat Conroy

“For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three turned…

— Natalie Babbitt

“I drifted on through the midst of this passionate music and motion, across many a glen, from ridge to ridge; often halting in the…

— John Muir

“The musicians-how shall one begin to describe them? All this time they have been there, playing in a mad frenzy-all of this scene must…

— Upton Sinclair

“But in a gale, the silent machinery of a sailing-ship would catch not only the power, but the wild and exulting voice of the…

— Joseph Conrad

When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest…

— Walter de La Mare

“The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the…

— H. G. Wells

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

— Etta James

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

— Charles Dickens

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

— John Milton

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

— Dave Beard

“Deep in the woods, beside the swift-running stream, I stood listening, until the faint rustle of leaves reached me—soft songs drifting on the breeze,…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya