If you learn to preserve quiet in your day, you will find, that eventually, that quiet will preserve you.
— Andrea Gyorody, Los Angeles Preserving quiet spaces — for researchers and writers who come to work at the Library, for users who want peaceful places where they can read and for visitors hoping to immerse themselves in our exhibitions and more — is of utmost importance.
An acoustic ecologist and the author, with John Grossmann, of the book "One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Quest to Preserve Quiet" (Free Press), Hempton established a tiny patch of land in 2005 that he believes he can protect from all human noise: jets, vehicles, machinery.
SANTORINI, GREECE SELENE Last year, the famed Santorini restaurant Selene (selene.gr) moved from the town of Fira to the beautifully preserved, and quieter, village of Pyrgos, a short drive away.
"But we also want to preserve the quiet repose of the village residents".
I'd rather be known for having persevered in the face of opposition than having ducked issues in order to preserve a quiet life.
"Wicked awesome," one character said, "all that Gordon Wood business!" Through it all, the man himself preserves a quiet modesty, and even a humility that is central to his work.
A plan to transform downtown Jamaica, Queens, into a vibrant "airport village" while preserving the quiet, low-scale character of neighboring side streets cleared an important City Council committee yesterday, all but ensuring final approval next month for the single largest rezoning of the Bloomberg administration.
Rather we harm wrong doers to preserve "the quiet and happiness of the world" and this "general and more enlarged obligation destroys a more particular and confined one of the same kind, inconsistent with it.
Make a concerted effort to preserve their quiet, undisturbed moments.
