Attentive listening to place must precede any attempt to record it.

Evidence

It is time for me to calm down, look, and listen to where I am. I pull onto the shoulder next to an empty, rusty, log-hauling trailer parked in the cool shade of an oak tree. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1205

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the chapter’s earlier ethical stance that deep listening requires initial calm — Hempton’s own practice of arrival-before-recording aligns with that discipline.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1205