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Bernie Krause Quotes

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

Bernie Krause
Men, Silence, Sound
"The Great Animal Orchestra". Book by Bernie Krause, March 19, 2012.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

Bernie Krause
Music, Silence, Understanding

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

Bernie Krause
Sound, Needs, Torn Apart
"A great silence is spreading over the natural worl" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2012.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

Bernie Krause
Nature, Space, Listening
Bernie Krause (2012). “The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places”, p.15, Profile Books

Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

Bernie Krause
Animal, Snakes, Laughing

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