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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

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Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

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I would say that to listen is to become aware. To become truly informed. You will discover whatever you do.

Aware, Become, Discover, Informed, Listen, Say

I believe that our distant nomadic ancestors came forward and survived because they could hear distant, faint birdsong as an acoustic navigational beacon, if you will, and by moving toward the birdsong, they were able to find places with shelter, food, and water, and a prosperous growing region. Indeed, birdsong is the number one indicator of habitats prosperous to humans.

Believe, Birdsong, Hear, Moving, Water

Noise pollution is basically defined as the presence of simple information that makes it impossible to hear all the other more delicate - and often more important - information. Noise pollution creates, if you will, dumb environments. Our industrial areas, many of our downtown urban areas, are dumb acoustic environments. Very simple, very loud, often unhealthy.

Downtown, Dumb, Important, Loud, Simple

We're all born listeners. And as a result of our modern lives, and living in a world that has less meaning than the natural world that we evolved to hear, we learn to think of listening not as taking in all the information with equal value, which is the definition of true listening. In our modern world, we tend to think of listening as focusing our attention on what is important and filtering out everything else.

Filtering, Hear, Important, Listening, Thinking

I work in the same style as classic landscape photographers. You find the right perspective, and then you wait until the light is right. I do the same. I find the right location, and then I wait for the sound, the atmosphere to be right, and for the space to be revealed.

Atmosphere, Location, Perspective, Photographers, Wait, Waiting
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