Animal Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

“I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.”

— Kyo Maclear

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan…

— Graham Greene

An absolute patience. Trees stand up to their knees in fog. The fog slowly flows uphill. White cobwebs, the grass leaning where deer have…

— Denise Levertov

“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

I stood within the city disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passng through the streets; and heard the Mountain's…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice, I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused, flowing, sounds of the…

— walt whitman

“Life is amazingly beautiful. Clouds and wind blowing through the trees makes such a sound of music that one can contour to their own…

— Peace Gypsy

“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

Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and breaks into a myriad of sounds:a croaking and squeaking,…

— Italo Calvino

Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling, High in…

— Mary Weston Fordham

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower…

— Herb Caen