Though [Buffy Sainte-Marie's] own material [on Quiet Places] is, as usual, tightly crafted and melodic with well-turned lyric phrases, there is no single song as arresting as "Moonshot," the title cut and crown jewel of her last album.

Characteristically, the emotional tenor of Buffy's artistry, furious passion constrained by intellect, is her paramount virtue…. "Quiet Places" (the album's best BSM song), with its demand, "show me in a world that's all gone mad that there are still quiet places," [is] a complaint against civilization itself.

Stephen Holden, "Records: 'Quiet Places'," in Rolling Stone (by Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. © 1973; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission), Issue 143, September 13, 1973, p. 68.