Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life. --Jean Arp
Fact of the Day:
Bernie Krause listens to nature for a living. After having recorded nature for 40 years, he's noticing some alarming -- the natural sound of the world, biophony, is vanishing. Man-made noise is creeping into the most remote regions of Earth and Bernie argues that it's ruining our ecology. Animals divide up the acoustic spectrum so they don't interfere with one another's voices; no two species use the same frequency. So when man-made noise intrudes, certain species lose their ability to synchronize, communicate, and ultimately, survive. [ more ]
Reduce your noise footprint. Turn off all your personal gadgets before you go to sleep tonight.
2 comments:
I do not own a stereo. My TV is maybe 5 hours per week. The phone ringer is set on low. The volume on my computer is even lower. We are quiet folks who dislike noise. I am not at all uncomfortable with nothing for company but my own thoughts.
Good things are all around us. What we have to do is to find them and be happy with them.
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