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\u2013 Mother Teresa \u2013<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n
While much of nature operates in silence, the wilderness exudes a multitude of sounds from the sweet songs of endless species of birds, to the coyote’s wail,\u00a0the elk’s bugle, the wind through the canopy of trees, the tumultuous crashing of a waterfall, the crack of thunder as lightning\u00a0splits the sky . . . \u00a0 These sounds, and many more, draw us deeply into the spell of nature and away from the noise and hubbub of today’s urban lifestyle. \u00a0It’s clear that the sounds of nature\u00a0help us recover from these stresses and science has proven it,1<\/sup>\u00a0yet in many places the sounds of nature are usurped by the sounds of people.<\/p>\n The National Park Service has been exploring sounds, and noise in particular, around the National Parks in the U.S. \u00a0They have found the following to be the most dominant noise sources the parks:<\/p>\n The Park Service has done many things to reduce noise at various National Parks. \u00a0Use of snowmobiles, for example, have been limited or banned in some parks. \u00a0Shuttle buses have been introduced to reduce auto traffic in key parts of some parks. \u00a0Air Tour operators are more tightly controlled at parks like Grand Canyon. \u00a0This all helps, but when people congregate at our National Parks, \u00a0there is always noise. So get away from the crowds and explore the sound of nature.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2013 John Muir \u2013<\/div><\/div>\n Wonder what a pied butcherbird sounds like at 3:00 am in the Ormiston Gorge of Australia? \u00a0How about the raucous soundscape at Lake Achit-nur in Mongolia? \u00a0Maybe you’d enjoy the sounds of Antarctic petrels breeding on Dronning Maud Land\u00a0or\u00a0the morning chorus on Mount Kupe in Cameroon, Africa. \u00a0These sounds and hundreds more are immediately available to you at Nature Sound Map<\/a>\u00a0if you aren’t able to travel to these places.<\/p>\n Better yet, \u00a0get out and explore the landscape around you with the intent to hear the sounds of nature that fill the air or sneak\u00a0in amid the noise\u00a0of your present environment. \u00a0If that’s not practical at the moment, play the following recording. \u00a0It offers an hour of relaxing sounds from the forest. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n <\/p>\nNoise in the National Parks<\/h1>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Sound of Silence<\/h1>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t“The faint lisp of snowflakes as they alight is one of the smallest sounds a mortal can hear. The sound of falling sequoia seeds, even when they happen to strike on flat leaves or flakes of bark, is about as faint.”<\/p>\n![\"snowflake\"](\"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/snowflake-281x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Silence is not something to expect in nature, so tune your ears and hear that snowflake as it settles in with its partners or seek the sounds of nature that intrigue you the most.<\/p>\n