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Silent Night
Art + Stories
Experiences

Silent Night

As the literature of recent centuries shows, our relationship with silence – as ritual, as protective, as deathly – has a long and rich history.
Ewa Pluta
Silence of the Mind Is Awareness of Being
Soul + Body
Wellbeing

Silence of the Mind Is Awareness of Being

The silence and stillness brought to us by the act of meditation can lead to awareness of our consciousness – and insights about the nature of selfhood.
Tim Parks
The Great Outdoors Is Nature’s Healer
Soul + Body
Wellbeing

The Great Outdoors Is Nature’s Healer

Urban living brings with it great intellectual gains, yet living outside in nature can bring manifold benefits, too.
Jill Neimark
What Does the Amazon Rainforest Have to Say?
World + People
Nature

What Does the Amazon Rainforest Have to Say?

American acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton takes us on a sound trip to the first quiet park on Earth, where we can hear the gentle sounds of the Zabalo River, nestled deep in the Amazon rainforest.
Gordon Hempton
In Search of Silence (Part II)
World + People
Dreams and Visions

In Search of Silence (Part II)

Silence is so difficult to find; even when we think we’ve found it, we still have to deal with our own internal psychological noise.
Julia Fiedorczuk
Silence Is Within Us
Humor + Variety
Variety

Silence Is Within Us

“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence,” instructs Max Ehrmann in his “Desiderata”. But why is the poem so popular in Poland?
Renata Lis
A Kingdom for Silence
Soul + Body
Wellbeing

A Kingdom for Silence

For most of us, exposure to noise is inescapable (and is only getting worse). Its consequences for our health are manifold.
Agnieszka Fiedorowicz
As Loud as Possible
Soul + Body
Wellbeing

As Loud as Possible

When was the last time that you were truly surrounded by silence? City life is inevitably always accompanied by noise, and it’s a growing problem for our health.
Paulina Wilk
Oh Silence, Oh Deathly Silent Uproar!*
World + People
Science

Oh Silence, Oh Deathly Silent Uproar!*

Noise is all around us. So it has been, ever since we swapped our hunter-gatherer lifestyle for city-living – which is where the ancients’ complicated relationship with silence began…
Paweł Janiszewski
The Extinction of Silence
World + People
Dreams and Visions

The Extinction of Silence

Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton talks about the sound of melting snow, what it means to truly listen, and how silence continues to creep away from us.
Maria Hawranek