Sunday, May 13, 2012

Acoustic Ecologist

Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist. He says that silence is an endangered species. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth, as he knows it, is a "solar-powered jukebox." Quiet is a "think tank of the soul." We take in the world through his ears.
-On Being, Sunday Morning Public Radio show

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