Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World, Revised Edition

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. More recently, the International Society of Ecoacoustics, which convened for the first time in June 2014 in Paris, changed the focus of that inquiry to the narrower concept of soundscape ecology.

In a paper in 1977 on birdsong, Peter Marler and Kenneth Marten suggested the possibility that creatures vocalize in some (yet to be understood) relationship to one another.

Any living thing which triumphs in the struggle against its environment destroys itself. —Gregory Bateson

With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful. —Alfred North Whitehead

I can’t imagine a life without the nourishment of the wild soundscape’s divine music enveloping me.

noise level being chief among the culprits bringing about anxiety, panic, hyper-sensitivity and general nervous tension.

Printed out, these might take the shape of an envelope the size of a CD (five inches square) with a graphic and an audio CD of a favorite location you have recorded.

I consider noise to be any sound that intrudes, covers, blocks, or distorts the articulation of sounds coming from the natural (as opposed to domestic) creature world.

In the clearing, where the mind flowers and the world sprouts up at every side, listen for the sound in the bushes behind the grass. —Marcia Falk, “Listen”