EPISODE · Dec 22, 2016 · 51 MIN
Gordon Hempton — Silence and the Presence of Everything
from On Being · host On Being Studios
Silence is an endangered species, says Gordon Hempton. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth, as he knows it, is a "solar-powered jukebox." Quiet is a "think tank of the soul." We take in the world through his ears.
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