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The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.