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

- Gordon Hempton

The birds are already evolving, changing the way that they sing as a result of noise pollution. And we have yet to do that. We're still not communica…

- Gordon Hempton

The most sensitive frequencies are at the resonant frequencies of the auditory canal. In other words, the ear has shaped itself to naturally amplify …

- Gordon Hempton

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 …

- Gordon Hempton

I believe that our distant nomadic ancestors came forward and survived because they could hear distant, faint birdsong as an acoustic navigational be…

- Gordon Hempton

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 sam…

- Gordon Hempton

I used to hate the urban environment and the urban din. But I realize now that it's really not that much different than living next to a waterfall fo…

- Gordon Hempton

The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze the landscape a…

- Gordon Hempton

Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a numb…

- Gordon Hempton