Why the World Gets Quieter When It Snows | the Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future
slowdown.tvslowdown.tvSaved by Jonathan Simcoe
Why the World Gets Quieter When It Snows | the Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future
“Slow down and tune into our seismographs.” The invitation is to practice “sensing to the depths” by finding one’s own inner still point, dropping through the layers of white noise, or using a finely-tuned instrument to hear the subtle signals.
What do we sense from our different perspectives? What do we “hear” and what are the different qualities o... See more
What do we sense from our different perspectives? What do we “hear” and what are the different qualities o... See more
Nancy Zamierowski • Slow down and tune into our seismographs
After the Gallaudet tour, I could better imagine what that might be like. Sound is a multisensory pleasure because it’s a wave. That’s why it’s something you can feel—the diffusion of its energy from a high concentration to a lower one as it moves through space.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
In making the planet brighter and louder, we have also fragmented it. While razing rainforests and bleaching coral reefs, we have also endangered sensory environments. That must now change. We have to save the quiet, and preserve the dark.
Ed Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Something similar can happen to trees even in the absence of snow, though also on hillsides. In these cases, it is sometimes the ground itself that is sliding extremely slowly down to the valley