“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”
Solomon in All His Glory https://archive.org/details/solomoninallhisg00lynd (1922), pp. 12-13.
Contexte: In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence. One has to sit still like a mystic and wait. One soon learns that fussing, instead of achieving things, merely prevents things from happening. To be passive is in some circumstances the most efficient form of activity. You cannot command events: you can only put yourself in the place where events will happen to you. No impatient man has ever seen Nature.
