But few value Olympic National Park as I do: with my ears. I believe that Olympic Park is quieter than any other national park or wilderness area in the 390 units of the 84 million acres managed by the National Park Service—including the largest, Wrangle–St. Elias in Alaska, where squadrons of vacationing flightseers break the silence on a clear day.

Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence-…, loc. 70