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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

Wendell Berry
Clouds, Silence, Tree
Wendell Berry (2013). “This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012”, p.219, Counterpoint

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

Wendell Berry
Men, Silence, Needs
Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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