A tone as bright and warm as sunlight rings from a giant bronze bell. There is no hint of tinkling or rattling, just a single, overtone-rich frequency a few notes below middle C, right in the middle of the human speech range. Even though I stand two meters from the bell, the sound seems to come from within me, soothing,…
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David G. Haskell: Bird Voices and the Language of Belonging
David George Haskell is an American biologist and writer who is currently a professor of biology at The University of South Tennessee. He has published two books so far: The Forest Unseen (2012) and The Songs of Trees (2017). Both were nominated for a number of major literary awards (including the Pulitzer Prize), the latter of which received the John Burroughs Medal (John Burroughs…