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One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World eBooks
By: Gordon Hempton ~ Joint Author: John Grossmann
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One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World Summary
| ""The extinction rate for quiet places vastly exceeds the species rate.""--Gordon Hempton ONE SQUARE INCH OF SILENCE is the unique narrative of author Gordon Hempton's coast-to-coast sound safari, ultimately leading to Washington, D.C., where he will press his concern for quiet in our national parks, specifically the national treasure close to his home, Olympic National Park. As he crosses the nation, Hempton listens intently to the voice of the American landscape and the collective voices of those he meets along the way, and he reflects on his unusual life's work, recording the under-appreciated realm of nature's symphonies, bird song, bugling elk, melting ice--soul-soothing but endangered terrestrial soundscapes that are fast disappearing in the steady advance of man-made tumult. Hempton asks the question, why isn't natural quiet part of the global ecological agenda? Why is the focus only on issues such as global warming, deforestation, water pollution, and species extinction, but not on the very primal concern of what we hear and how that affects us and all living creatures? From rain forest to urban centers, from rugged mountains to Midwestern prairie, in industrial zones and sports arenas, the Earth is speaking. The unchecked loss of silence is a canary in a coal mine--if we turn a deaf ear to the loss of natural quiet, we cannot expect to fare better with more complex environmental crises. |
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