I would say that to listen is to become aware. To become truly informed. You will discover whatever you do. — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy.… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
The most important thing for our species is, before it speaks, to listen to its environment. That has a higher priority in… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
We're all born listeners. And as a result of our modern lives, and living in a world that has less meaning than… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
How are we going to know what sounds are important before we've even heard those sounds? It's an absurd question. The only… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
I'm very thankful, hearing impairment or not, that I've brought listening into my life. I will never say that I'm a good… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
"Acoustic ecologist" is basically a fancy name for someone who tries to become a better listener. Not just listening to those thoughts,… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
If you're listening to a symphony, you're getting all the information, including the audience around you, the delay from the sides of… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
The Hoh Valley is an incredibly secure area. Any event occurs around us, we will instantly become informed of that event. This… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Acoustic ecology is the study of information systems: the shared acoustic environment and how species send and receive messages in this shared acoustic environment.… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
If you're listening to a symphony, you're getting all the information, including the audience around you, the delay from the sides of the concert… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze the landscape… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
You can listen to a birdsong, and from the content of the birdsong, you will be able to determine whether or not the bird… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
You don't really need to engage your visual sense, because the natural wiring of the human psyche is to monitor the environment through sound,… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
I believe that our distant nomadic ancestors came forward and survived because they could hear distant, faint birdsong as an acoustic navigational beacon, if… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
How are we going to know what sounds are important before we've even heard those sounds? It's an absurd question. The only thing we… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
What visual information does is it creates priorities. You cannot know with certainty what lies behind something else. There are very few transparent materials… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
Not only does the modern person often think that sight is more important than sound - there's no objective evidence to indicate that. Many… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a number-one environmental concern,… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
The normal way of gathering information is through sound: when you hear information that you want to gather, you look in its direction, you… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
The most important thing for our species is, before it speaks, to listen to its environment. That has a higher priority in any species'… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
Often how you define the problem will determine whether or not you're able to find a real solution. — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
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… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share
