Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

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.

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.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

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.

Only silence perfects silence.

Listen to the sound of silence.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

Silence is best.

I love silence.

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?

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

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