Forest Silence Quotes

#1. This forest silence improves anyone.

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. And the man then said Oh, please: Just let me know if you come upon bark textures that recall the erosion patterns of human hope...And then he disappeared behind a tree...and the forest fell into silence...

Evan Dara

#3. It's more for me as with going into a forest: if you sit quietly for a long time, the life around you emerges. As the world grows ever more clamorous, my hunger for silence steepens. I unplug the landline.

Jane Hirshfield

#4. I learned about silence. But it was more than just a lack of noise - I experienced a great stillness. Staring at the ocean, walking in the forest, looking up at the stars - there was always noise and movement, but there was also stillness.

Jared Brock

#5. Everything ended in silence. The beasts and spirits heaved a deep breath, broke up their encirclement, and returned to the depths of a forest that had lost its heart.

Haruki Murakami

#6. I'll leave the way of words to walk the wood I'll be the forest's man, and greet the sun, And feel the silence blossom on my tongue like language.

Neil Gaiman

#7. The long black nights, when the moon hides her face, when the stars are afraid, are not so black. The silence that dwells in the forest is not so black. There is nothing in the world so black as thy hair.

Oscar Wilde

#8. ...there is something which impresses the mind with awe in the shade and silence of these vast forests. In the deep solitude, alone with nature, we converse with God.

Thaddeus Mason Harris

#9. The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.

Mason Cooley

#10. Silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire's anxiety faded. It really would be easier

Christine Johnson

#11. When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world.

Thomas Merton

#13. Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,
The burning lake turns into a forest pool,
The fire subsides into rings of water,
A sunlit silence.

Theodore Roethke

#14. Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

Jocelyn Murray

#16. All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.

Caroline Hanson

#18. If a tree falls in the forest when no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?
If I scream in the silence, will anyone be around to hear it?

Lydia Kelly

#19. If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

Eckhart Tolle

#20. These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.

Samantha Hunt

#21. ...when you sit in a forest everything appears still. But it isn't really. If you listen and watch closely, life is happening everywhere around you...In silence, life keeps raging on.

Katherine Holubitsky

#22. I AM THE SILENCE AT THE END OF THE SONG!"
"Could you give me the 'dumb forest creature' version, maybe?

Nicole Chartrand

#23. Insects, birds, and small game all chattered, yet for a while, they sat in peace. In an odd way, connection and understanding thrived on the non-words. The forest spoke like God's voice, alive and real, leaving healing and hope in the wake of silence.

Michelle Griep

#24. One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.

Thomas Merton

#25. Where does a wise man hide a pebble?" And the tall man answered in a low voice: "On the beach." The small man nodded, and after a short silence said: "Where does a wise man hide a leaf?" And the other answered: "In the forest.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.

Joseph Conrad

#27. All you could do was hope for silence, for still air.

Peter Akinti

#28. The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting, undisturbed by knowing, tranquil in the forgetfulness of yesterday's silvery silence

Sean Terrence Best