“The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.”
“Talking just adds to the noise pollution in the world. If we were really serious about going green, then maybe we'd all just be quiet.”
“All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever.”
“A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.”
“Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.”
“Breathing, it seemed to me, was a proper attribute for the mountains... mountains that quietly functioned as a single thing with a rhythmic inhale-exhale I could feel...”