“If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the word of God were spoken in our world, it could not be heard — there is too much noise.”
~Søren Kierkegaard
“Took my daily walk at 4 p.m. today in 89 degrees of frost . . . I paused to listen to the silence . . . The day was dying, the night being born—but with great peace. Here were imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! That was what came out of the silence—a gentle rhythm, the strain of a perfect chord, the music of the spheres perhaps.”
~Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Antarctica, 1934
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