“But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees”
C.S. Lewis
“There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.”
Tom Hanks
“Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .”
William Barnes
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
Winston Churchill
“Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind does move / Silently, invisibly.”
William Blake
“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A yawn is a silent shout.”
G. K. Chesterton