This chapter explores the Daoist concept of jing—stillness, emptiness, and quietude—as central to both Chinese landscape poetry and the Daoist pursuit of harmony. In the Daoist classic Daodejing, quietude names the event of “returning to the root,” which resonates with the emergent critical plant studies. While critics are aware of the eventfulness that subsists in the silence of plants, the Daoist notion of jing allows us to claim further that the event of silence is vegetal. Through focalizing the relation between plants and silence in poetry by the Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei, this chapter examines the Daoist notions of non-action, transformation-of-things, and the yin-yang mutuality, alongside Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the event, Michael Marder’s vegetal articulation, and John Ryan’s plant-voice. Following Deleuze’s proposal of replacing the proposition “the tree is green” with “the tree ‘greens,’” this chapter argues that the rendition of jing in Wang Wei’s poetry as an incorporeal predicate (as in “the night quiets” in his “Bird-Sing Stream”) affords us not only a venture into the nuanced delineation of silence, but also a genuine understanding of silence on the basis of plants.