Darkness reliably predicts natural quiet on Earth

Evidence

Light pollution is the evil cousin of noise pollution. Find an unilluminated place on earth, and you are more likely to find periods of natural quiet than simply studying a map. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1702

Categorization

• XREF: Ties directly to the reader’s existing knowledge base on light pollution and sensory overload as parallel threats.
• SEED: An essay on using night-sky darkness as a practical proxy map for acoustic quiet.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1702