Bernie Krause quotes
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“A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,”
-- Bernie KrauseSource : "The Great Animal Orchestra". Book by Bernie Krause, March 19, 2012.
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“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.”
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“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 KrauseSource : Bernie Krause (2012). “The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places”, p.15, Profile Books
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“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 KrauseSource : "A great silence is spreading over the natural worl" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2012.
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“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
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Silence is a text easy to misread.”
Source : A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Eagle and the Sword”, Harper Prism
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“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”
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“I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.”
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