No other sound can match the healing power of the sounds of nature. Nights can never be real and enjoyable without the croaking of frogs and the chirping of crickets.
Nature Sounds Quotes
1. “The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.”
— Robert Hooke
2. “With Crazy Horse, it’s all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I’m part of it. It’s like gliding or some sort of natural surfing.”
— Neil Young
3. “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”
— John Muir
4. “Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.”
— Alfred Nobel
5. “Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.”
— Alexander Graham Bell
6. “Its Constitution–the glittering and sounding generalities of natural rights which make up the Declaration of Independence.”
— Rufus Choate
7. “Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there’s nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It’s that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice – it’s that times 800.”
— Eddie Redmayne
8. “Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you’re really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing’s as raw of a sport as it gets.”
— Kelly Slater
9. “With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
10. “People never sing…except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too.”
— Michel Odent
11. “Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water and high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger of blessed rain, but this was as dry as hell must be. My distraught perception refused to believe it, because of the insane suddenness with which it sounded, swelled, and hit, and how casually it came to murder my child.”
— Anna Akhmatova
12. “A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.”
— Bernie Krause
13. “Sound is the vocabulary of nature.”
— Pierre Schaeffer
14. “Perfect photography, larger screens, and hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the filmmaker interests me more than the copy of an object.”
— Jean Renoir
15. “We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves.”
— Andy Goldsworthy
16. “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.”
— Mother Teresa
17. “The sound of water says what I think.”
— Zhuangzi
18. “Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds, and silences.”
— Gene Stratton-Porter
19. “We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.”
— Joanna Macy
20. “Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally does not make any either.”
— Michio Kushi
21. “I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and wise stewardship of our nation’s natural resources.”
— Ronald Reagan
