Natural silence

Nature | Parenting

Learning to Listen Again
ByAbby Quillen February 21, 2011September 3, 2016

The Christian Science Monitor published my essay “Learning to Listen Again” in their January 31 issue. (It was inspired by a post I wrote here last June.) My world has gotten a lot louder lately. My 2-year-old son, Ezra, just discovered noise. “Airplane, airplane, airplane.” He gestures toward the sky until I repeat, “Airplane.” “Car!”…

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Family life | Social movements

Learning to Listen
ByAbby Quillen June 28, 2010

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol Recently I wrote a post about acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton’s search for natural silence, and something he said to a New York Times reporter caught my attention: “When you become a better listener to nature, you become a…

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