[Unedited] Gordon Hempton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton collects sounds from around the world. He’s recorded inside Sitka spruce logs in the Pacific Northwest, thunder in the Kalahari Desert, and dawn breaking across six continents. An attentive listener, he says silence is an endangered species on the verge of extinction. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound but an absence of noise. We take in the world through his ears.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
0:07.5	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:24.0	I'm Christa Tippett, up next, my unedited conversation with audio-acolodist Gordon Hempton.
0:31.0	There is a shorter, produced version of this, which includes some of the remarkable soundscapes he captures.
0:38.0	And you can find that wherever you found this podcast.
0:44.0	Oh, it's Christa Tippett. I think we are.
0:47.0	All right, Christa.
0:49.0	Wait, we're just getting set up here.
0:52.0	Brought along some orange juice, so I'm going to have a swig.
0:55.0	Okay. Great.
0:58.0	So you're in Minneapolis?
1:01.0	Yes, and where are you?
1:04.0	Well, I'm in a quiet place here in Seattle.
1:08.0	Yeah, in fact.
1:10.0	Oh, boy, it was a couple of noisy hours just getting here.
1:14.0	Yeah?
1:15.0	Now, I was hoping that I'd be able to sneak in this room early just to heal from that big bang and outside.
1:23.0	But in any case, I'm ready.
1:26.0	We actually have some construction going on here.
1:30.0	And we're wondering with the sensitivity of your listening ability, whether you might even hear it across these thousands of miles.
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