Hark | Interlude 3 | Quiet

Sometimes a place we consider quiet is just a place we haven’t taken the time to listen.

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Episode Transcript

Amy Martin: It's a cloudy (00:05):
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Amy Martin: December evening. (00:06):
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Amy Martin: It's getting dark, fast. (00:09):
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Amy Martin: And (00:11):
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Amy Martin: I'm next to Rattlesnake Creek (00:13):
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Amy Martin: outside of Missoula, Montana. (00:15):
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Amy Martin: And (00:19):
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Amy Martin: this is what we call a quiet (00:20):
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Amy Martin: place. (00:22):
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Amy Martin: And it's really not that quiet (00:25):
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Amy Martin: because the creek (00:28):
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Amy Martin: is rushing along. (00:30):
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Amy Martin: This is partly why (00:34):
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Amy Martin: I wanted to do a whole season (00:36):
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Amy Martin: about listening is that (00:37):
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Amy Martin: when we actually start to (00:40):
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Amy Martin: listen (00:41):
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Amy Martin: places or (00:43):
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Amy Martin: creatures or (00:45):
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Amy Martin: plants (00:47):
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Amy Martin: that we consider to be quiet (00:49):
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Amy Martin: or silent even, (00:52):
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Amy Martin: it turns out they have voices. (00:54):
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Amy Martin: They're talking. (01:00):
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Amy Martin: They have things to say (01:01):
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Amy Martin: and so (01:03):
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Amy Martin: often what we (01:05):
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Amy Martin: define as a quiet (01:07):
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Amy Martin: place is really just (01:09):
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Amy Martin: a place we haven't listened to (01:10):
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Amy Martin: very well yet. (01:12):
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Amy Martin: I think often what we mean is (01:16):
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Amy Martin: just a place where we're not (01:17):
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Amy Martin: intruding with our sound. (01:18):
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Amy Martin: It's not that the place (01:26):
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Amy Martin: is quiet. It's that I'm quiet (01:28):
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Amy Martin: in the place. (01:30):
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Amy Martin: Quiet enough that I can (01:31):
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Amy Martin: actually hear it. (01:33):
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Amy Martin: And I (01:44):
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Amy Martin: actually brought a book out (01:46):
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Amy Martin: here with me. (01:47):
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Amy Martin: It's by Tich Nhat Hanh. (01:49):
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Amy Martin: And it's (01:51):
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Amy Martin: called Silence: (01:53):
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Amy Martin: The Power of Quiet in a World (01:54):
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Amy Martin: Full of Noise. (01:56):
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Amy Martin: And the whole book is (01:58):
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Amy Martin: phenomenal. (01:59):
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Amy Martin: I highly recommend it, but um, (02:01):
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Amy Martin: here's the first few paragraphs. (02:05):
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Amy Martin: We spend a lot of time looking (02:09):
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Amy Martin: for happiness when the world (02:10):
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Amy Martin: right around us is full (02:12):
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Amy Martin: of wonder. (02:14):
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Amy Martin: To be alive and walk on the (02:17):
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Amy Martin: earth is a miracle. (02:18):
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Amy Martin: And yet most of us are running (02:21):
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Amy Martin: as if there were some better (02:23):
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Amy Martin: place to get to. (02:24):
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Amy Martin: There's beauty calling to us (02:26):
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Amy Martin: every day, every hour. (02:28):
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Amy Martin: But we are rarely in a position (02:31):
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Amy Martin: to listen. (02:33):
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Amy Martin: The basic condition for us to (02:37):
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Amy Martin: be able to hear the call of (02:39):
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Amy Martin: beauty and respond to it (02:41):
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Amy Martin: is silence. (02:43):
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Amy Martin: If we don't have silence in (02:46):
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Amy Martin: ourselves, if our (02:47):
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Amy Martin: mind, our body are full (02:49):
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Amy Martin: of noise, (02:50):
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Amy Martin: then we can't hear beauty's (02:52):
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Amy Martin: call. (02:54):
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Amy Martin: So it's time for us to actually (03:01):
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Amy Martin: get a little quiet ourselves on (03:03):
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Amy Martin: the podcast feed. (03:05):
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Amy Martin: We're going to take a break, (03:06):
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Amy Martin: take a deep breath, encourage (03:09):
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Amy Martin: you to do the same. (03:11):
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Amy Martin: We will be back with (03:14):
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Amy Martin: a lot more episodes, (03:15):
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Amy Martin: like a lot more. (03:17):
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Amy Martin: But we're going to press (03:22):
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Amy Martin: pause for a minute. (03:23):
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Amy Martin: If you have any questions for (03:26):
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Amy Martin: us about how we're (03:27):
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Amy Martin: making this season or anything (03:29):
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Amy Martin: you've heard on the season or (03:31):
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Amy Martin: anything at all really, (03:33):
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Amy Martin: send them to us. (03:35):
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Amy Martin: We're going to do an Ask Me (03:36):
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Amy Martin: Anything episode soon and (03:37):
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Amy Martin: your questions are going to be (03:39):
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Amy Martin: the heart of that episode. (03:41):
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Amy Martin: So send any questions (03:42):
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Amy Martin: you may have to outreach@ (03:44):
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Amy Martin: thresholdpodcast.org, (03:46):
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Amy Martin: and we'll do our best to answer (03:48):
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Amy Martin: them in that episode (03:49):
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Amy Martin: and enjoy some quiet. (03:51):
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Amy Martin: Thanks for listening. (03:55):
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