One Square Inch of Silence
One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World
Prologue
Sounds of Silence
The day will come when man will have to fight noise as inexorably as cholera and the plague." So said the Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Robert Koch in 1905. A century later, that day has drawn much nearer. Today silence has become an endangered species. Our cities, our suburbs, our farm communities, even our most expansive and remote national parks are not free from human noise intrusions. Nor is there relief even at the North Pole; continent-hopping jets see to that. Moreover, fighting noise is not the same as preserving silence. Our typical anti-noise strategies -- earplugs, noise cancellation headphones, even noise abatement laws -- offer no real solution because they do nothing to help us reconnect and listen to the land. And the land is speaking.
We've reached a time in human history when our global environmental crisis requires that we make permanent life-style changes. More than ever before, we need to fall back in love with the land. Silence is our meeting place.
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