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

To my mind, nothing heals the spirit and body more completely than the incantations of biophonies.

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

In another publication, Jakob von Uexküll, a behavioral physiologist of the early twentieth century, referred to the notion of sensory niches in general.

Roger and Katy Payne, were the first marine examples most people had ever heard.1 The

body of research is now being done on sounds that heal.

what we hear in wild places is not only fascinating and immeasurably rich in detail, but absolutely vital to our lives and our survival.

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.

Perception Space—The Final Frontier,” by Lars Chittka and Axel Brockmann, PLoS Biology 3 (2005), no.

An ecotone is an area of progression between one type of habitat and another: from meadow to forest, for example, or coral reef to open ocean.