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You’ve heard the expression “take time to smell the roses,” right? Well, before you flex those olfactory muscles of yours, have you ever considered taking the time to just listen instead? There is a whole world of sound that goes unnoticed to us in the daily rat race of city life. Hell, I even started wearing earphones and listening to sports podcasts during my daily commute just to tune out all the ambient commotion that fills the air on a given day. And I have no scientific basis for this, but I’m pretty sure that the intense heat here in Guangzhou only amplifies the decibel level of the local crane population (the loud construction ones, not the quiet feathered ones).
But what I didn’t know is that as cities keep getting louder, the countryside keeps getting quieter. What does that mean? Well, today’s features cover this very topic; natural sound. First, in One Square Inch of Silence, Gordon Hempton explains how his life changed forever after pulling off to the side of the road and truly listening to the “magnificent, deep, primordial, soul-shaking sounds” of crashing thunder. Next, in The Dawn Chorus—Nature’s Best Symphony, Meg Lowman goes down the list of America’s underappreciated vocal stylists from the ornithological kingdom. And in John Vidal’s article, A Great Silence Spreads over the Natural World, we hear how Bernie Krause was able to capture some the world’s most secret sounds and bring them to the silver screen.
So the next time you find yourself on a busy city bus, on a deserted beach, or in a cornfield during a thunderstorm, just close your eyes, open your ears, and take it all in, because you never know if you’ll hear those same sounds again.
你应该听过这样的说法——“抽空去闻闻玫瑰的芬芳,”对吧?嗯,在你收缩嗅觉肌肉前,是否曾想过花时间去聆听一下?在紧张的城市日常生活中,我们忽略了许多声音。该死,某天,我甚至开始在通勤时段戴上耳机听体育播客,只为盖过充斥在周围空气中的喧闹声。我相当确定广州那灼人的热气扩大了当地起重机的声音分贝,虽然这并没有科学根据(这里的“crane”指的是嘈杂的、用于施工建筑的起重机,而不是安静的、有羽毛的鹤)。
但我不知道,在城市变得越来越吵闹的同时,乡村却变得越来越寂静。这是什么意思?嗯,这就是本期的主题——自然之声。首先,在《一平方英寸的寂静》中,戈登·汉普顿详述了在他停车走到路边的小径,用心聆听那“宏伟、深沉、原始、撼动灵魂”的隆隆雷声后,他的人生发生了彻底的改变。接着,在《鸟儿的黎明大合唱——大自然最美的交响乐》中,玛格·洛曼给我们展现了美国一群未获充分赏识的鸟类歌唱家。而在由约翰·维达尔撰写的《无声的自然界》中,我们听闻了伯尼·克劳斯是如何捕获世界上那些最隐秘的声音并把这些声音呈现到大银幕上的。
所以如果下次你发现自己身处城市喧闹的巴士里,或是无人的海难上,抑或是暴风雨期间的玉米田中,张开你的耳朵,仔细聆听,因为你不知道还能否再次听到那些声音。
But what I didn’t know is that as cities keep getting louder, the countryside keeps getting quieter. What does that mean? Well, today’s features cover this very topic; natural sound. First, in One Square Inch of Silence, Gordon Hempton explains how his life changed forever after pulling off to the side of the road and truly listening to the “magnificent, deep, primordial, soul-shaking sounds” of crashing thunder. Next, in The Dawn Chorus—Nature’s Best Symphony, Meg Lowman goes down the list of America’s underappreciated vocal stylists from the ornithological kingdom. And in John Vidal’s article, A Great Silence Spreads over the Natural World, we hear how Bernie Krause was able to capture some the world’s most secret sounds and bring them to the silver screen.
So the next time you find yourself on a busy city bus, on a deserted beach, or in a cornfield during a thunderstorm, just close your eyes, open your ears, and take it all in, because you never know if you’ll hear those same sounds again.
你应该听过这样的说法——“抽空去闻闻玫瑰的芬芳,”对吧?嗯,在你收缩嗅觉肌肉前,是否曾想过花时间去聆听一下?在紧张的城市日常生活中,我们忽略了许多声音。该死,某天,我甚至开始在通勤时段戴上耳机听体育播客,只为盖过充斥在周围空气中的喧闹声。我相当确定广州那灼人的热气扩大了当地起重机的声音分贝,虽然这并没有科学根据(这里的“crane”指的是嘈杂的、用于施工建筑的起重机,而不是安静的、有羽毛的鹤)。
但我不知道,在城市变得越来越吵闹的同时,乡村却变得越来越寂静。这是什么意思?嗯,这就是本期的主题——自然之声。首先,在《一平方英寸的寂静》中,戈登·汉普顿详述了在他停车走到路边的小径,用心聆听那“宏伟、深沉、原始、撼动灵魂”的隆隆雷声后,他的人生发生了彻底的改变。接着,在《鸟儿的黎明大合唱——大自然最美的交响乐》中,玛格·洛曼给我们展现了美国一群未获充分赏识的鸟类歌唱家。而在由约翰·维达尔撰写的《无声的自然界》中,我们听闻了伯尼·克劳斯是如何捕获世界上那些最隐秘的声音并把这些声音呈现到大银幕上的。
所以如果下次你发现自己身处城市喧闹的巴士里,或是无人的海难上,抑或是暴风雨期间的玉米田中,张开你的耳朵,仔细聆听,因为你不知道还能否再次听到那些声音。