Even in a place you’d think is quiet, there are all sorts of noises. Some subtle and some not so subtle. There are very few places these days we can find that are truly quiet. There’s noise going on around us all the time. Years ago I had the opportunity to spend a week at a Benedictine Monastery. I stayed in their Guest House. I got up early and went to Mass with them. Then I had the day to myself. A couple of hours of each of the five days I was there I spent just sitting in the church, enjoying the solitude. What a refreshing vacation that was.
people talking
a phone beeping, doors closing
life’s randomness
Uncle Bardie's Stories & Such 
There is constant noise always around me, in the college of music, in my student halls full of music students, traffic noise, London noise in general, when I go home now I can actually hear the birds and nothing, I sleep so deeply there.