Sanctuaries of Silence – A Listening Journey

Emergence Magazine Podcast

Emergence Magazine

Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In this immersive listening journey from our archive, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton guides us into the Hoh Rain Forest—one of the quietest places in North America. In a world drowned out by the din of modern life, Hempton offers a way to attune our ears to the sounds that emerge in the absence of noise and reconnect with the silence of the living world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Adam, this is the middle of the night.
0:05.0	What time is it?
0:07.0	Oh, five minutes of two.
0:16.0	As you know, I live in a yurt and the yurt is a membrane, a lot like the human ear.
0:29.0	And so I can not only listen to the world that is outside my home, but the yurt being circular also amplifies many of the sounds.
0:42.7	And that is why I have to get up in the middle of the night.
0:46.1	If I'm going to do this voiceover,
0:47.8	that's a logging truck.
1:00.8	The road is a half mile away.
1:05.4	And yet you can begin to hear it from several miles away.
1:12.2	This is the quietest time of day.
1:15.3	The air is absolutely still,
1:17.7	and that's why sound propagates so well and travels so far.
1:23.5	It gets louder and fainter and louder and fainter
1:26.1	as it makes these turns.
1:32.3	Even here, somebody's workday starts 2.30, 3 o'clock in the morning.
1:58.0	And the noise from that logging truck is even louder than the rush of the creek.
2:02.6	The logging truck is miles away and the creek maybe 50 feet.
2:09.6	Okay.
2:14.6	Logging truck please disappear so I can disappear.
2:20.8	Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.
2:24.1	I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine,
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