How to Find Silence in a Noisy World

A New York Times Op-Docs 360 video

“Sanctuaries of Silence” takes you on a virtual journey into one of Earth’s last remaining bastions of true quiet — the Hoh Rain Forest, in Washington State. Shooting in beautifully immersive 360 video, directors Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee follow acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton as he explores the mossy, green heart of silence. In “Sanctuaries of Silence,” the threat is not so much to a place, as to our very ability to encounter the natural world on its own terms. As Hempton puts it, “Silence isn’t the absence of something, but the presence of everything.”

If you want to read more about Hempton’s work, click below on Brain Picking’s article on Hempton: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/14/gordon-hempton-silence/?mc_cid=630b5b4e5e&mc_eid=058c9506da

The title of today’s blog is a quote from Hempton taking from his On Being interview with Krista Tippett. The interview link follows: https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/gordon-hempton-silence-and-the-presence-of-everything

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