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Last 12 Naturally Silent Places in the US

Gordon Hempton is an audio ecologist (how many of those have you met?) who, due to a profound love of nature, has made documenting the way it sounds his life’s work. In the course of his work, he’s come across a startling phenomenon–the quiet places in the world are vanishing.

Hempton argues that “silence is rapidly disappearing…[and] there are a fewer than a dozen places of silence [in America].” He believes that such silence — found in natural settings undisturbed by human activity and sound — is completely underrated, yet it profoundly contributes to our well-being.

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