Sigurd T. Olson Quotes

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Silence is best.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Quiet is better than loud.

Only silence perfects silence.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.

Silence is a still noise.

Variación / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca bajo espesura de besos. * The still waters of the air under the bough of the echo. The still waters of the water under a frond of stars. The still waters of your mouth under a thicket of kisses. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

Listen to the sound of silence.

There is something joyous about not talking.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.