Wendell Berry Quotes

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

Take time to be quiet.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

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?

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

But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.

Listen to the sound of silence.

Silence is the most powerful state.

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.

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

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

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.

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.