Autumn Tunes
The quietest place in the United States is now active with the calls of the Roosevelt Elk and the soft applause of falling maple leaves. This is a perfect time to visit and experience, first hand, the profound depths of nature in the absence of noise pollution.
Quiet eco-tourism is now building a ground swell of interest with One Square Inch of Silence listed as among the world’s most desirable destinations for aural solitude by Forbes Traveler, MSN and Yahoo!
Air travel is the number one destroyer of natural quiet in wilderness areas. As the Holiday Season approaches and air travel peaks, don’t forget to mention to your airline that according to information provided by the Air Transport Association it costs less than a dollar per passenger to avoid flying over a national park’s wilderness area—far less of a cost than weather! Ask your pilot to file a “deviation from flight plan” to avoid national parks and help save silence. This action will help bring this urgent need to the attention of airlines by those people they value most.
Ken Burns, producer of The National Parks—America’s Best Idea, reviews the book, One Square Inch of Silence. “After a while we begin to sense that it is silence that is our greatest teacher. The interval between musical notes. The pauses in a play or speech or conversation. The awe-inspiring cloisters of our civilizations. But it is in nature, as this wonderful gem of a book reveals, that we find the real blessing of silence.”
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