"At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege."

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Source : Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Singing Wilderness”, p.137, Knopf

Sigurd F. Olson

#Water Quotes #Noise Quotes #Doe Quotes

“In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and winding, ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.”
“I want to be wherever you are.”
“A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.”
“It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that”
“A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.”
“I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! In my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. I love God and there's something in me that would rather do things for God than talk to God. I'm not by nature a mystical, devotional person. I like to do things. And so it's a challenge for me to have a faithful prayer life, but I know God loves me and He's not mad at me. He just wishes I would slow down and turn things over to Him. And that's what I think you achieve through prayer.”
“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”

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