For the past thirty-plus years, an acoustic ecologist named Gordon Hempton has compiled what he calls “The List of the Last Great Quiet Places.” It consists of places with at least fifteen minutes of uninterrupted quiet during daylight hours. At last count there were only twelve quiet places in the entire United States!16 And we wonder why the soul suffers. As Hempton noted, “Quiet is a think tank of the soul.”17 Simply put, God often speaks loudest when we’re quietest.
