Air Quote by George Arnold

Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.

— Yosa Buson

Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral…

— Philip Larkin

Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every…

— Luce Irigaray

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

— Mother Teresa

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 saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow…

— Thomas Hood

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of…

— Thomas Carlyle

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air…

— H. G. Wells

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

— Vicki Lewis Thompson

Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods…of the shore…of the meadows…of the night…of the summer afternoon.…

— Anonymous

“A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.”

— Patrick McGrath

“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