I once read that the quietest place on Earth is in a Bell laboratory. It is a huge room, but so quiet if you drop a pin at one end of the room you can hear it clearly at the other end. Wow.
One of my favorite quiet places is my mother's home in the middle of nowhere Iowa. Cell phones do not work, it's so remote and tucked into the hills. Sitting out by the pond at night and watching the stars, you can feel very small and insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe. That can be scary, sometimes. The silence can be quite...well, loud.
But if you can stay with it and ride through those feelings, it is one of the most peaceful places I have ever known.
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