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Saving the Silence: World’s Last Quiet Places

01 Haleakala National Park

Maui, Hawaii

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02 Hoh Rain Forest

Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Home to Hempton’s pioneering “One Square Inch of Silence” project in 2005, he describes this temperate North American rainforest in Olympic National Park as “drapes of sound-absorbing moss covering large areas in the world’s tallest forest with

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