Rusty Schweickart Quotes

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

My wife and kids like the quiet and the countryside - I still find that kind of quiet hard to listen to.

For me, I definitely like quiet; I like to write alone.

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

Silence is like a flame, you see?

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

I am interested in silences

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

...even the donkeys were quiet.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

To restore silence is the role of objects.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.