"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."

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Source : "A great silence is spreading over the natural worl" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2012.

Bernie Krause

#Sound Quotes #Needs Quotes #Way Quotes

“Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.”
“Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."”
“I am very good at what I do. I am better at it than anybody else.”
“Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.”
“It actually giggles at you as it goes by.”
“It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.”
“You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.”

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