"A Silence That Must Be Heard..."

"Much silence has a mighty noise...". Swahili Proverb

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear...". Ram Dass

There are many voices being raised as we approach this Day of The Earth... The one voice... often the quietest one, is that which speaks from within such silence...

Nature and our Mother Earth are a silently powerful, yet vulnerable, entity that also must be heard. Wild place adventures embrace a silence that must be listened closely for too...

Why is our quiet time of musing in nature of such value... Pythagoras said, "Learn to be silent. Let your mind listen and absorb". When we wonder in this way, we come closer to discovering our motives; our own personal why's... When we ponder such, we begin to then create meaning... These become the very essence for our motivation; for why we go and for what we do out in the wild places... Then in understanding what as Nietzsche wrote, "Our greatest experiences, are our quietest moments". We will then stand up for, and protect, that which we see as important and at the foundation of our intentions and meanings...

All of this provides us with a sense of true purpose...

And that is much to gain from the silence of a quiet moment of musing out there...

A silence that must be heard.....

DSD

(My appreciation to Raymes for the top image and to Thomas for the second image.)