Silence is a very profound and very mysterious subject. The very element of silence and the loss of silence, otherwise known as noise, or the effect of silence on things are outside of the known realities. Man can write a lifetime about silence and still only uncover the slightest truth about silence. Perhaps the most mysterious pathway of silence is that of the effects of nature.
             Nature is the state of the world before and during the absence of man with all of his machines and buildings which shatter the natural silence of the world. The struggle between man and nature can be followed back to man's fear of silence. Man was created in silence and he hasn't been able or willing to return to the quiet stillness of his beginning. It seems as if he is frightened of the peace and stillness created by silence. Man can't live in a silent place, he needs noise to exist. Even at his best attempt to live in harmony with silence in nature he is still threatened by it.
             There are several ways in which silence might affect the world of nature. Firstly, the all things are at their beginnings silent. The way this is perceived is though the images of silence. Images of the silence are like signs pointing the way to their source, as in a tree planted in the forest. The expectant stillness is part of nature's increasing presence in things. It can be said that, things are on the outer end of silence waiting for silence to find the tranquility of the moment.
             At times it seems as if, nature is fighting against silence. Natures struggle is not quite as desperate as man's fight with silence. Nature must only disturb silence in order to accomplish certain things, like the change of seasons from the stillness of winter to the onset of spring. Only slightly more dramatic is the commencement of autumn from summer's seemingly endless tenure. The hibernation and period of dormancy preceding winter is in part the work of silence...