![]() ![]() ![]() He has only been able to document a dozen such places in the United States. There's still one log untouched by noise pollution.įor a location to qualify for Hempton's "One Square Inch of Silence" project, visitors must be able to expect silent intervals of fifteen minutes or more during daylight hours. As a result, says Hempton, there's not a single square inch of silence left anywhere in the continent of Europe: Too many planes. No place near any kind of flight path is reliably quiet anymore. Road traffic is plenty loud, but Hempton says the real problem is jet aircraft. A decade later, just three of them were left. In 1984, when Hempton first began cataloging the quiet places of our planet, he found twenty-one silent spots in Washington State alone. Finding silence is harder than it sounds. ![]() He lives in Port Angeles, Washington, the gateway to the stunning beauty of Olympic National Park, and he's spent the last three decades in a quixotic pursuit that he calls "One Square Inch of Silence." He's trying to find the last places on earth that are entirely untouched by the aural fingerprint of man. Gordon Hempton is a botanist and sound recordist whose natural soundscapes for PBS have won him an Emmy. ![]()
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