"No life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us," Walton wrote.
Both bid teams had to provide evidence of the ability to provide infrastructure (such as power and broadband) at the sites; protection for the areas' "radio quietness"; as well as other factors such as suitable geology and government support.
He has had, from his earliest stage appearances, the ability to radiate, to transfix by quietness as well as by sudden flares.
To experience inner quietness is as important as expressing ourselves.
Here the telling contrast came in the orchestra's first program, on Thursday, which began with the hushed strings of Ives's "Unanswered Question," a sound as intensely produced in its quietness as the final triumphant roar of "Ameriques" was in its loudness.
And it turned out they had six other children of various sizes standing around the couch looking at the camera with what I recognized as the same unsmiling quietness of expression as Baby Wilson himself.
On the other, he often produces playing of such rapt quietness as to make the world stand still.
"People interpreted his reticence, his quietness, as 'He must be holding something back,' " says Peter von Reichbauer, a council member in King County, which includes Seattle.
It's a piano album on which Jamal plays with an elevated but unmannered quietness, as if to coax listeners to lean toward the speakers and listen to the music, which seems to come from the inside.
A poised, neoclassical music; Gray's images have an untimely, exalted quietness, as if he were filming with violins and woodwinds and didn't admit of electric instruments, though his subtler textures compete in the same arena and catch some of the same emotional jolt.
