New scientific field will study ecological importance of sounds

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Posted by Bill who putters on March 1, 2011, 3:30 pm
 
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"If we disconnect with the sounds of nature, will we continue to respect
and sustain nature?"

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Posted by Nad R on March 1, 2011, 4:23 pm
 
No we will not ever disconnect with natures sounds. I have my iPad's Clock
Radio set to wakeup to natures soundscapes: rain, birds chirping, wind,
flowing water... Now that we have soundscapes recorded humans no longer
need nature.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R  (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

Posted by EVP MAN on March 1, 2011, 5:14 pm
 
I'm hard of hearing but I don't consider it a handicap.  I consider it a
blessing!  Way too much sound pollution in the world these days.
Especially when my wife is yelling at me..........LOL

WN


Posted by Bill who putters on March 1, 2011, 5:43 pm
 

The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide
I heard the first wave of the rising tide
Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;
A voice out of the silence of the deep,
A sound mysteriously multiplied
As of a cataract from the mountain's side,
Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep.
So comes to us at times, from the unknown
And inaccessible solitudes of being,
The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul;
And inspirations, that we deem our own,
Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing
Of things beyond our reason or control.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Sound of the Sea":

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Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden

łEvery conflict in the world today has its origin in the
imagination of British map drawers,˛ Author Unknown






Posted by despen on March 1, 2011, 9:25 pm
 

Aggh!  Don't talk to me about natures sounds.

I have tinnitus and I hear crickets.
All the time.

I'm not sure how long I've had it but one night
lying in bed during a snowfall I started thinking about
how quiet snowfalls make everything.  Then I started to
wonder how the crickets could still be chirping in the
middle of the winter.

At least I don't hear a tone.
I'm sure that has to be the worst.