New scientific field will study ecological importance of sounds

Radio set to wakeup to natures soundscapes: rain, birds chirping, wind, flowing water... Now that we have soundscapes recorded humans no longer need nature.

I'm hard of hearing but I don't consider it a handicap. I consider it a blessing! Way too much sound pollution in the world these days. Especially when my wife is yelling at me..........LOL

WN

And round the pebbly beaches far and wide I heard the first wave of the rising tide Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep; A voice out of the silence of the deep, A sound mysteriously multiplied As of a cataract from the mountain's side, Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep. So comes to us at times, from the unknown And inaccessible solitudes of being, The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul; And inspirations, that we deem our own, Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing Of things beyond our reason or control.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Sound of the Sea":

Aggh! Don't talk to me about natures sounds.

I have tinnitus and I hear crickets. All the time.

I'm not sure how long I've had it but one night lying in bed during a snowfall I started thinking about how quiet snowfalls make everything. Then I started to wonder how the crickets could still be chirping in the middle of the winter.

At least I don't hear a tone. I'm sure that has to be the worst.