Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.
Gordon Hempton
Gordon Hempton
The Last Quiet Places
Oct 18, 2013-- Gordon Hempton says that silence is an endangered species. He's an acoustic ecologist -- a collector of sound all over the world. He defines real quiet as presence -- not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth as Gordon Hempton knows it is a "solar-powered jukebox." Quiet is a "think tank of the soul." In this interview we take in the world through his ears. (35354 reads)
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Take ActionMake time for inner quiet this week by stopping sometimes, and turning away from ordinary sounds for a few minutes and listening to your own "thinktank of the soul."
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