Fascinating article, Bernie.
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Suzanne
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA
"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images
were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in
their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops,
looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be
aware of me." - Ansel Adams
--- In Wild Sanctuary <>
wrote:
>
> Thanks for the kind note, Kevin.
>
> It's taken about 40 years to figure out what humans instinctively
> knew about the sounds of the natural world eons ago when we lived
> much closer to the natural world and heard the thrum of sounds
around
> us. I found Greenfield's rebuttal odd, or else he misinterpreted
the
> intent. It's not a new age "let's all get along" hypothesis, it is
> evolution like any other, where species co-evolve to distibute the
> sound in the space of time and acoustic turf like any other
resource.
> And it's taken a very long and frustrating time to get some sense
> that the evolutionary biology community, in which I count myself a
> member, supported it. "Who speaks of victory? To endure is
> everything!" said the German poet, Rilke.
>
> Keep recording everyone. The world needs your dedication to this
effort,
> Bernie
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