Quiet Time

George Prochnik pursues silence:

There's that beautiful line from Thoreau, that silence has variousdepths of fertility, like soil. I felt again and again when I wastraveling how each one of these different microclimates of silence, apocket park or a monastery or a Zen garden or a neurobiologylaboratory, had such a different texture to it. And with the array ofsilence that is out there, I think if we made a commitment to try tohelp people who don't have any access to any kind of silence...