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On Being Blog: Sounds of Silence

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by Gordon Hempton

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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….

Erica described the silence of Acadia National park to me the other day after hearing this. I described the similar experience I had off of the backroads of Kansas.

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    by Gordon Hempton The day will come when man will have to fight noise as inexorably as cholera and the plague.” So said...
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    beautifully written post.
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    mmmm
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    similar experience I had off
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