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Sound Escapes

Twenty Thousand Hertz

CHAPTER

The Sound Tracker

Gordon Hempton believes that we are born good listeners. He says over time, we lose that skill and it's under threat in our noisy modern lives. We don't hear the birds anymore or the wind in the trees, he says. But here's the good news: We can relearn how to listen.

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