listening to Bernie Krause makes me very very sad since it shows me what we have lost in our human greed to expand, build, rule and dominate. Yet, it is the reality of our world. One day , people will flock to museums - or to internet web pages - to hear true nature's sounds. Mr. Krause is not only a nature lover but also a philosopher and ethnologist, who in his work elaborates on how we - in the industrialized countries - have lost the appreciation of the auditory sense, as visual perception dominates. Tragically, in 2017 a large amount of his archived material together with his equipment got lost in a wildfire in California.
Thank you, Bernie. The call of the bereaved beaver was indeed heat-breaking. For me, the most poignant sound I ever heard was of rhino that had ben attacked and its horn removed with a machete. For days it had been suffering, and its cry haunts me still. Thank you.
@ 10:50 ... A most haunting, poignant story and sound one might ever hear... the utterly heartbreaking cries of an inconsolable, beaver father. Quote from Bernie Krause regarding the loss of wilderness and the wild creatures: "A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening. Little by little the vast orchestra of life, the chorus of the natural world, is in the process of being quietened. There has been a massive decrease in the density and diversity of key vocal creatures, both large and small. The sense of desolation extends beyond mere silence."
that's such a deep talk reminding me a perspective that was ignored to understand the beautiful world I am so priviledged to live in. The talk is really underrated....
I've only just today discovered that your work even exists. But I can already see the enormous value of this. I think what you are doing is not only wonderful - but vital, for our understanding of human impact upon the environment. Please. Keep up the good work.
I cried for the first time today after my father died in 2003. The sentence: "Fully 50% of my archive comes from habitats so radically altered that they are either altogether silent or could no longer be heard in any of their original form" moved me to tears!
Hi Bernie! Was touched by the mourning beaver so I had to share this! While walking around Columbia University in NYC some years ago, we saw a crow had been hit by a car and killed, and it's flock, consisting of three crows, were up in the trees making a sound we had never heard from crows before! A moaning sound! My wife and I agreed that they were mourning the death of their comrade. We firmly believe that animals have emotions irregardless of biologists!
Critical information/science in preserving our rural spaces . . . this work is so important to what's going on right in Bernie's backyard . . . I would love to see him present at some of the meetings I've attended where the supervisors and Fish and Game are making decisions about oyster farming, mono-culture and other critical decisions that will effect our Sonoma County landscape now and into the future . . . his story about the destroyed beaver dam was absolutely heart-wrenching . . .
We tend to be so visual as a species but sound is a much more profound experience so yes we need more of this way of communicating about the real world (as opposed to man-made) of which we are all part .
Soundscape Ecology, a fascinatingly interesting field of study. It makes perfect sense to analyze and consider the sounds of life all around us to gather information about how human activity affects certain ecosystems. Small changes in traditional sound could have dramatic impact later on. I know that some animals adapt and change their noises to overcome human noise. They tend to alter the frequencies of their songs/calls. Interesting things to ponder.
That beaver is very sad. Don't forget all animals in slaughterhouses that cry to similar or worst way. Is our commitment to preserve our Nature Mother. PEACE
In spite of the focus of Bernie's talk on natural environments, yours is a valid and noteworthy point. Although it would be wrong, of course, to play one issue off against the other, why should we be any less moved by the desperate cries of an animal in the slaughterhouse than in its natural environment? I would love to know Bernies's views about films such as Earthlings (2005) ruclips.net/video/w8B547L5VkQ/видео.html and Our Daily Bread ('Unser Täglich Brot', 2005) ruclips.net/video/i_VBdCmabVs/видео.html
When I was a kid, a family of deer walked in front of the car in our neighborhood so we stopped. The deer walked by except for one baby. A sports car speeded through 30 miles over the speed limit and flipped the baby in the air! It landed and broke all 4 of it's knees. It tried to run on it's knees but it couldn't. We called the police who "took care of it"-whatever that means... During the impact, the mother deer made a sound ten times more sad than that beaver... That was the only time in my life I heard a deer make a noise... and it was a scream...
It would be interesting to see this type of technique used for urban or human habitats. Would we be able to 'hear' differences when political atmosphere change? or when a critical even happens in news or some other media? If we can use this to determine the fitness of 'wild' habitats, why not our own?
There are a bunch of websites online with databases of audio bird calls. Here's one: www.birdweb.org/birdweb/audiosource I remember hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts. Hiking for hours in the natural quiet. Then hearing a quail out of nowhere. Sound was piercing, powerful, incredible...
Well thanks for that. Nice to see some intelligent responses on here for a change. BTW, the word 'God' far too easily tossed around and dislike the term. However, being a fan of quantum theory, like this 'God' is a concept, an idea, an unintelligible sphere known to the mind whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere, and the centre is right where you're sitting, and each of us is a manifestation of that mystery.
People are so used to the sounds of technology or "development" that some are foreign to sounds of nature.. thankfully that i got both and totally love the nature more.. Agree to calling the sounds humans make are noise.. me included
Our ancestors already knew this, why everything is alive. The Creator speaks through in everything. Ty for sharing the story of the Amish (beaver)- Why we say all my relations. Miig wetch
That's true what you're saying. Nature is very adaptive and much is relative. We live in an interdependent world. But I don't think we should fall into the trap of self justification when it comes to our influence of global stability and global warming. I see this dynamic of justification with many things in our human history such as the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945. (Like maybe radioactivity and mass death was good in the long run) I appreciate your thoughts, take care. Namaste.
One could say that because human beings are animals, anything that we produce is also a form of nature, not unlike a bird's nest. It's a matter of perspective, really.
This is brilliant .... We are so ignorant of life, we are all concerned with our credit cards and our fast foods that we forget this world does not belong to only 1 species ... Humans are horrid ...
He's not. Check out the dictionary definition I included: 1. the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities. 2. the natural world as it exists without human beings or civilization. 3. the elements of the natural world, as mountains, trees, animals, or rivers. 4. natural scenery. 5. the universe, with all its phenomena.
Alright. Alright. I suppose I wasn't being 100% literal. What I was implying is that it's interesting to think that all the human accomplishments are a product of just an animal that happens to be intelligent, and the animal is a product of nature. In this sense, everything seems to be natural. Now if you're talking dictionary definitions, that's a different matter.
Air conditioning, readily-available food and medicine, and other things we think of as luxuries have allowed humans to expand their life spans far beyond what was possible even a century ago. I don't think human society is just 'different' from nature. When constructed responsibly with respect for the natural world, it's better.
Not you maybe, but if game wardens - of all people! - are doing it for amusement (really, it boggles the mind), then it clearly needs to be demonstrated as viscerally as possible. Hard to believe, though, wow.
I dunno when I hear soundscapes like this I am reminded of werner herzog and his thoughts on nature and the jungle.....not as nice a thing to think about how many of those sounds are actual murder happening.
listening to Bernie Krause makes me very very sad since it shows me what we have lost in our human greed to expand, build, rule and dominate. Yet, it is the reality of our world. One day , people will flock to museums - or to internet web pages - to hear true nature's sounds. Mr. Krause is not only a nature lover but also a philosopher and ethnologist, who in his work elaborates on how we - in the industrialized countries - have lost the appreciation of the auditory sense, as visual perception dominates.
Tragically, in 2017 a large amount of his archived material together with his equipment got lost in a wildfire in California.
This is the best talk I have seen and I feel this line of work/study should be much, much better known. Really invaluable work.
Stuart, check his interview out on June 15 1973 about a movie and album he'd done with his partner on nes perse tribe
Thank you, Bernie. The call of the bereaved beaver was indeed heat-breaking.
For me, the most poignant sound I ever heard was of rhino that had ben attacked and its horn removed with a machete.
For days it had been suffering, and its cry haunts me still.
Thank you.
@ 10:50 ... A most haunting, poignant story and sound one might ever hear... the utterly heartbreaking cries of an inconsolable, beaver father.
Quote from Bernie Krause regarding the loss of wilderness and the wild creatures:
"A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening. Little by little the vast orchestra of life, the chorus of the natural world, is in the process of being quietened. There has been a massive decrease in the density and diversity of key vocal creatures, both large and small. The sense of desolation extends beyond mere silence."
that's such a deep talk reminding me a perspective that was ignored to understand the beautiful world I am so priviledged to live in. The talk is really underrated....
I've only just today discovered that your work even exists. But I can already see the enormous value of this. I think what you are doing is not only wonderful - but vital, for our understanding of human impact upon the environment. Please. Keep up the good work.
Very underrated talk. He presents with such finesse
I cried for the first time today after my father died in 2003. The sentence: "Fully 50% of my archive comes from habitats so radically altered that they are either altogether silent or could no longer be heard in any of their original form" moved me to tears!
We need more such "nature" ted talks.
Hi Bernie! Was touched by the mourning beaver so I had to share this! While walking around Columbia University in NYC some years ago, we saw a crow had been hit by a car and killed, and it's flock, consisting of three crows, were up in the trees making a sound we had never heard from crows before! A moaning sound! My wife and I agreed that they were mourning the death of their comrade. We firmly believe that animals have emotions irregardless of biologists!
This is my favorite Ted talk ever.
Thank you Bernie! I read your book some years ago. Today I cried with Papa Beaver. Thank you for sharing your inbaluable perspective.
何年も前にNHKでこの回を見たけど、未だにこのビーバーの泣き声が耳から離れない
Critical information/science in preserving our rural spaces . . . this work is so important to what's going on right in Bernie's backyard . . . I would love to see him present at some of the meetings I've attended where the supervisors and Fish and Game are making decisions about oyster farming, mono-culture and other critical decisions that will effect our Sonoma County landscape now and into the future . . . his story about the destroyed beaver dam was absolutely heart-wrenching . . .
One of the most interesting and poetic ted talks I've ever seen!
The More we listen, more will we understand.
thanks Bernie for the insight
Wow. Thank you so much.
I have goosebumps all over . Thank you Bernie for sharing.
We tend to be so visual as a species but sound is a much more profound experience so yes we need more of this way of communicating about the real world (as opposed to man-made) of which we are all part .
Bernie Krause, un homme qui écoute et enregistre la nature et qui est fort intéressant à écouter...
Soundscape Ecology, a fascinatingly interesting field of study. It makes perfect sense to analyze and consider the sounds of life all around us to gather information about how human activity affects certain ecosystems. Small changes in traditional sound could have dramatic impact later on. I know that some animals adapt and change their noises to overcome human noise. They tend to alter the frequencies of their songs/calls. Interesting things to ponder.
exceptional presentation
usually i cannot stomach these Ted
talks but this is the exception
Thank you so much for your excellent work on natural sounds .This is our story, and se are killing it .
That beaver is very sad. Don't forget all animals in slaughterhouses that cry to similar or worst way. Is our commitment to preserve our Nature Mother. PEACE
In spite of the focus of Bernie's talk on natural environments, yours is a valid and noteworthy point. Although it would be wrong, of course, to play one issue off against the other, why should we be any less moved by the desperate cries of an animal in the slaughterhouse than in its natural environment? I would love to know Bernies's views about films such as Earthlings (2005) ruclips.net/video/w8B547L5VkQ/видео.html and
Our Daily Bread ('Unser Täglich Brot', 2005) ruclips.net/video/i_VBdCmabVs/видео.html
This is spellbinding
Thank you
Outstanding research. Thank you.
The sound of the male beaver mourning his dead family will haunt me for a while. Gods, why are we so destructive as a species?
This is fascinating. And sad.
to have their voice drowned out by the anthrophony.
amazing, thanks so much, I will follow since now
Not gonna lie, I shed a tear or two 😢
the answer is blowing in the wind
Great post! GREAT RESEARCH!!! Thank You!
The sound of the beaver is haunting. I've heard humans making similar sounds, just on a larger scale when they are in mourning.
I can learn through nature sounds.
Well Bernie said on all points, peace and love, Doug :).
When I was a kid, a family of deer walked in front of the car in our neighborhood so we stopped. The deer walked by except for one baby. A sports car speeded through 30 miles over the speed limit and flipped the baby in the air! It landed and broke all 4 of it's knees. It tried to run on it's knees but it couldn't. We called the police who "took care of it"-whatever that means... During the impact, the mother deer made a sound ten times more sad than that beaver... That was the only time in my life I heard a deer make a noise... and it was a scream...
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i'm so happy for you
that was a really good talk, I have to say I'd happy buy him a beer.
absolutely amazing.
Замечательный человек!
Importance of soundscape over landscape
inspirational as all get out
That beaver... :/ nearly cried..
I'm amazed!!
Really interesting lecture. We need care more about noise pollution.
It would be interesting to see this type of technique used for urban or human habitats. Would we be able to 'hear' differences when political atmosphere change? or when a critical even happens in news or some other media? If we can use this to determine the fitness of 'wild' habitats, why not our own?
Wow that was amazingly beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time :(
There are a bunch of websites online with databases of audio bird calls. Here's one: www.birdweb.org/birdweb/audiosource
I remember hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts. Hiking for hours in the natural quiet. Then hearing a quail out of nowhere. Sound was piercing, powerful, incredible...
I suspect those that can hear the call behind these processed recordings already had the ears with which to listen properly in the first place.
love your work!!
Thank you. Do you remember the day the music died? We do. Help us help us.
so inspiring, absolutely gorgeous
Well thanks for that. Nice to see some intelligent responses on here for a change.
BTW, the word 'God' far too easily tossed around and dislike the term. However, being a fan of quantum theory, like this 'God' is a concept, an idea, an unintelligible sphere known to the mind whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere, and the centre is right where you're sitting, and each of us is a manifestation of that mystery.
wonderful
That was wow.
We need movement against deforestation and human population explosion ....This is most urgent need of the time...
beautiful.............
wow.
Amazing video.
GREAT
I know, but once you notice it you can't unhear it.
Wow , this is amazing work , blows my mind
magnificent
Brilliant
Such an interesting speech. Man is not born human but to be made human
People are so used to the sounds of technology or "development" that some are foreign to sounds of nature.. thankfully that i got both and totally love the nature more..
Agree to calling the sounds humans make are noise.. me included
Our ancestors already knew this, why everything is alive. The Creator speaks through in everything. Ty for sharing the story of the Amish (beaver)- Why we say all my relations. Miig wetch
That's true what you're saying. Nature is very adaptive and much is relative. We live in an interdependent world.
But I don't think we should fall into the trap of self justification when it comes to our influence of global stability and global warming. I see this dynamic of justification with many things in our human history such as the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945. (Like maybe radioactivity and mass death was good in the long run)
I appreciate your thoughts, take care. Namaste.
Maravilhoso!
fabulous👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
a strong argument for humans to listen more. Try Silence people!
One could say that because human beings are animals, anything that we produce is also a form of nature, not unlike a bird's nest. It's a matter of perspective, really.
I don't think I needed audio recordings to teach me that throwing a stick of dynamite at a family of beavers is bad for beavers.
very very nıceee
This is brilliant .... We are so ignorant of life, we are all concerned with our credit cards and our fast foods that we forget this world does not belong to only 1 species ... Humans are horrid ...
The beaver...... 😭
1:45 What about the cacophony?
💖emocionante! e triste os impactos espécie humana🤦♀️😢
11:22 fucking destroyed me
ビーバーの鳴き声で泣いた！🤣
I respect food, keeps me alive. Where is the elephant video?
In the Beginning, there was a Word...
Watch the movie Earthlings
How can you say "It's better" when it completely depends on it. You can't detach both.
He's not. Check out the dictionary definition I included:
1. the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
2. the natural world as it exists without human beings or civilization.
3. the elements of the natural world, as mountains, trees, animals, or rivers.
4. natural scenery.
5. the universe, with all its phenomena.
Alright. Alright. I suppose I wasn't being 100% literal.
What I was implying is that it's interesting to think that all the human accomplishments are a product of just an animal that happens to be intelligent, and the animal is a product of nature.
In this sense, everything seems to be natural.
Now if you're talking dictionary definitions, that's a different matter.
Air conditioning, readily-available food and medicine, and other things we think of as luxuries have allowed humans to expand their life spans far beyond what was possible even a century ago.
I don't think human society is just 'different' from nature. When constructed responsibly with respect for the natural world, it's better.
It's not such ignorance.
@@JediNiyte Not enough biodiversity left than there is aerosol masking.
He's totally right though...
Do earthworms fart?
lol
Probably... depending in what they eat? Maybe, when their gut microbiome is out of whack?
we're the only species that produce objects as recreation though, most animals only produce out of necessity.
The Amazon rain forest sounds really annoying.
Not entirely true. We make our bedrooms very quiet so we can fall asleep to our sounds of nature cd's!!
Anyone else find he sounds a bit like Stan Lee?
i just got the feeling like these game wardens were just doing it because they thought is was going to be fun
Not you maybe, but if game wardens - of all people! - are doing it for amusement (really, it boggles the mind), then it clearly needs to be demonstrated as viscerally as possible. Hard to believe, though, wow.
I dunno when I hear soundscapes like this I am reminded of werner herzog and his thoughts on nature and the jungle.....not as nice a thing to think about how many of those sounds are actual murder happening.
murder is natural. the difference is animals eat what they kill. humans just murder each other for fun
Very 😢!
😢