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Re: Noises of Nature/Bernie Kause

Subject: Re: Noises of Nature/Bernie Kause
From: "Wild Sanctuary" bigchirp1
Date: Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:06 pm ((PST))
Thanks, Suzanne.

>Fascinating article, Bernie.
>
>----------------------
>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
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>


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Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
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