Silence
brianlux
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The subject of silence was brought up in another thread. This prompted me to bring up a much over-looked subject: Noise polution.
Yes, silence is underrated and scarce! A good book on the subject is Gordon Hempton's One Square Inch of Silence. In his book, Gordon talks about his quest to create one square inch of silence in the Hoh Rain Forrest in Olympic National Park, Washington USA. The place he is woking on lacks this silence for one reason only: a commercial air lane crosses over that part of the Olympics. He has petitionioned congress to have this lane moved slightly so as to create this one place of silence/natural-only-sound. The idea is that if you have one square inch of earth that is silent (that is, void on unnatural sounds) that area actually radiates out from there to create an even larger place of natural quiet. It's an excellent book about a serious problem in our world- noise polution and lack of quiet places.
A very worthy cause! Check it out:
http://onesquareinch.org/
One other thought: Since the Northwest is home to Pearl Jam and this project is taking place in their backyard, wouldn't it be cool if they lent suport to it? Just a thought.
Yes, silence is underrated and scarce! A good book on the subject is Gordon Hempton's One Square Inch of Silence. In his book, Gordon talks about his quest to create one square inch of silence in the Hoh Rain Forrest in Olympic National Park, Washington USA. The place he is woking on lacks this silence for one reason only: a commercial air lane crosses over that part of the Olympics. He has petitionioned congress to have this lane moved slightly so as to create this one place of silence/natural-only-sound. The idea is that if you have one square inch of earth that is silent (that is, void on unnatural sounds) that area actually radiates out from there to create an even larger place of natural quiet. It's an excellent book about a serious problem in our world- noise polution and lack of quiet places.
A very worthy cause! Check it out:
http://onesquareinch.org/
One other thought: Since the Northwest is home to Pearl Jam and this project is taking place in their backyard, wouldn't it be cool if they lent suport to it? Just a thought.
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do most people now maybe?
I find silence in my backyard ... beautiful silence.
Just me and my birds, frogs, crickets, and cicadas.....
but nature is incredibly noisy ... the good kind of noise...
music to my ears
Interesting brianlux ... thank you for posting!
I spent a week in the Boundary Waters in May and didn't hear a plane until the last day. I didn't realize I had been taking silence for granted up to that point.
Unfortunately, noise and light pollution are becoming almost unavoidable nowadays.