Acoustics Quote by Eric Sloane

I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like…

— Christian Fennesz

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

— Adelaide Crapsey

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush…

— John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear…

— William Butler Yeats

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.

— John Burroughs

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

— John Milton

When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and…

— Daphne du Maurier

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

— Lord Byron

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

— C. S. Lewis

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

— Clint Eastwood