Ears Quote by Gustave Flaubert

A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they…

— Linda Hogan

“Strange that Nature’s voices all around them — the soft singing of the waters, the whisperings of the river grass, the music of the…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we…

— Truman Capote

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it.

— Steven Wright

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the…

— Rudolf Steiner

Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have…

— Virginia Woolf

“There are men who cannot hear animals," he said. "And then there are men who cannot hear anything at all.”

— Mark Twain

“When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and…

— Carl R. Rogers

“John Hay, in The Immortal Wilderness , has written: 'There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water,…

— Linda Hogan

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what…

— John Muir

When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole…

— Anonymous