"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation," Sufi mystic Rumi once said.
Silence is the language of our soul.
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Since its publication 50 years ago, humanity has continued silencing the languages of nature, through the pesticides that Carson examined, habitat loss, pollution, overfishing, overhunting and climate change, reducing numbers and driving some species to extinction.
It's a caveat that looms large when considering In the Silence, the English-language version of Ásgeir Trausti's debut album.
"In that silence, I could hear the language for the first time".
Ellie Ade Kur, an organizer with campus advocacy group Silence is Violence, said, "The language is improved, but there are some concrete things missing".
Defiance voiced against the silence of a language lost, the stillness of the unspun loom; nameless clouds upon the peaks of Ñuñume.
The only thing I was good at in this school where I couldn't understand the language was silence.
It's almost inherently an invisible dynamic, legible only when you already speak the language of silence.
