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“Our culture associates noise with power and progress. Former Interior Secretary James Watt (who sought to close the EPA’s Office of Noise Control in the 1980s) thought that the more noise we made as a country, the more powerful we appeared. Physically, "noise" is wasted power for it represents wasted sound (that delivers little useful information), and wasted energy (because electromechanical generation emits heat). But psychologically, we perceive noise as proportional to power and therefore enviable. The bigger and noisier the Harley, the better.”
― Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday
― Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday
“While I applaud all efforts to incorporate authentic nature into cities, not acknowledging noise levels is a serious oversight. Our cities' collective racket is making all of us sick. Our hearts race and breathing speeds. We must talk louder, our voices hitting higher and higher pitches, our faces contorting, trying to communicate and claim our place in the landscape. Hearing lost is epidemic.”
― Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday
― Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday
“Noise does not respect boundaries. And the less control you have over sounds you do not want--barking dogs, loud music, the interstate--the more it affects you, and not just your mind, but your body.”
― Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday
― Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday
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