Descent Quote by Parker J. Palmer

If only you could hear the sound of snow

— Hakuin Ekaku

I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal,…

— Claudio Abbado

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

— John Burroughs

Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity

— Novala Takemoto

One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been…

— Wallace Stevens

Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In…

— John Burroughs

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

— Oscar Hammerstein

All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening…

— Henry David Thoreau

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

— Dean Koontz

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

— Michael Lang

The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

— Anne Sexton