As a kid I loved Simon and Garfunkel’s classic song, “The Sound of Silence.”Somewhere in the decades between the 1970s and today we’ve forgotten what silence sounds like. Although we might think we ...

A sound artist listens for quiet in Grasslands National Park A pale dome of light is spreading in the eastern sky. Gordon Hempton hits the gas. The eyes of rabbits and deer glint in the headlights, ...

However, different than meditation, we're left alone to process our thoughts. It can be hard to escape noise to find silence. Silence is the absence of noise.

Last August, “The Sound of Silence” swooned to No. 8, but by the first week of 2025, it had claimed its rightful mantle once again.