Quiet Recreation

Moments of Quiet Reflection

• “Everybody has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.”

  Jane Austen

• “We must hear the acoustic environment as a musical composition and own responsibility for that composition.”

  R Murray Schafer

• “True silence is the rest of the mind; it is the spirit of what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

  William Penn

• “Sound is a great undiscovered country for business. Most organisations are blissfully unaware of their sound, and yet sound affects people deeply. Sound can change people’s behaviour in almost any commercial environment.”

  Julian Treasure, The Sound Agency