📗 Libro en inglés NATURAL HISTORY OF SILENCE

In our busy noisy world we may find ourselves longing for silence But what is silence exactly Is it the total absence of sound Or is it the absence of the sound created by humans the kind of deep stillness you might experience in a remote mountain landscape covered in snow far away from the bustle of human life When we listen closely silence reveals a neglected reality Neither empty nor singular silence is instead plentiful and multiple In this book eco acoustic historian Jérôme Sueur allows us to discover a vast landscape of silences which trigger the full gamut of our emotions anxiety awe and peace He takes us from vistas resplendent with full and rich natural silences to the everyday silence of predators as they stalk their prey To explore silences in animal behaviour and ecology is to discover a counterpoint to the acoustic diversity of the natural world throwing into sharp relief the grating reverberations of the human activity which threatens it It is to attune ourselves to a world that our human insensitivities have closed off to us to take a moment simply to breathe and listen to the place of silence in nature