The sun was trembling now on the edge of the ridge. It was alive, almost fluid and pulsating, and as I watched it sink, I thought that I could feel the earth turning from it, actually feel its rotation. Overall was the silence of the wilderness, that sense of oneness which comes only when there are no distracting sights or sounds, when we listen with inward ears and see with inward eyes, when we feel and are aware with our entire beings rather than our senses.
- Sigurd Olson, The Singing Wilderness
Also Jim Harrison on the essential mystery of small things and more from Sigurd Olson on wilderness, silence and knowing:
http://www.herondance.org/silent-wilderness
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