Hi from Berkeley

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Hello from Austin, TX

Hi from Maumee, Ohio!

Brisbane Australia

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Charlottesville, VA

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Kennewick in Eastern Washington State, US

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hello from BC Canada

Hi from Evanston, IL!

Lenape land, NYC

hI from Madison,WI

Austin, Texas

Roseneath Ontario

Charles from Abenaki territory (now known as Portland, Maine)

Hello from Santa Cruz, ca

Tom and Susan Hayward, Brunswick, ME--Hi, David!

Peace and love from Pittsburgh, PA!

Burnsville, NC

Hello from Texas.

southwestern Ontario Canada

Hi from Inverness, CA

Hello from Australia, on the lands of the Yugambeh People

Hello! Tucked into the Hudson Valley, Lenape land

Hello, everyone. Padma from noisy Metro Manila, Philippines.

hello from Edmonton Alberta

Hello! From Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

brisbane, queensland

hey from Tongva territory so called Los Angeles

From the lands of the Coast Salish People, Vancouver, Canada

Ontario, Canada

Hello, from Southern California

Vancouver BC Canada

Cottonwood AZ, near Sedona

Good night from Toronto, Canada ☺️

Hello from southeast Pennsylvania, USA.

Hello from Richland, WA

Abenaki territory - St. Johnsbury Vermont

Hello from Albuquerque, New Mexico

Hello from Saugerties, NY by the Catskill Mountains and the winding Esopus Creek

Miss not running into you in NY, David!

Olone lands

Hello from Albany,

Vancouver Island, Canada

Calgary, Alberta - Hi

hello from Dallas,Texas

New Hampshire

University Park, Maryland

boulder co

Vancouver, BC. unceded lands of the Coast Salish

Poolesville, MD

hello, from john and Catherine smith

hello from Gloucester MA

Hello from Conifer Colorado

hello from Ohio

Caledonia, MN

I am grateful to live on the traditional and un-ceded territory of the Squamish Nation in Gibsons, BC, Canada

Forest of Oregon.

Las Vegas desert, homelands of the Southern Paiutes

rich from Shoshone CA

Hello from Kelowna, British Columbia, Sylix/OkanaganTerritory

Terry from Boston MA.

Hello all, from aboard our boat, Tangaroa, berthed in the Ventura harbor off shore of the California Channel Islands, home of the Chumash people.

Judy Todd, Pacific NW in Oregon

hearing the podcast is what brought me here

hello from Oakland, Cali

Noreen from Houston, Texas

Unseeded Gadigal and Wangal land (Sydney) Australia

Hello from unceded territories renamed Vancouver on colonization, Canada.

North side of Brisbane Australia on unseeded Turrbal land.

Boston is located in the lands of the Massachusett.

So true that Pt Reyes books features things you don't find elsewhere!

Thank you, David! https://www.ptreyesbooks.com/

Greetings from Portland, OR!

Toronto, Canada

From the unceded, traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-wa-tuth peoples, North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Jackie from near Melbourne, Australia

Brooklyn says hello

fabulous titles…postage prohibitive to Canada

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Etobicoke (Toronto) Canada.

Greetings from San Rafael, land of the coast Miwok.

Greetings! Barbara in Portland, OR

Other upcoming events here (save this to look at later!) https://www.ptreyesbooks.com/events

Greetings from Capitol Hill DC

Will Peden - Just over the hill in Mill Valley

Hello from Salt Spring Island In the Salish Sea Canada

Hello from Los Angeles

Hello from Chicago

I can hear a Philippine pied Fantail as I listen to this 😊

There is a movement promoting dark skies, perhaps we also need a movement to promote quiet spaces

quiet spaces would be wonderful!

*Internationally registered quiet parks! I’d go do that

Muir Woods and Olympic have places dedicated to the natural soundscape and also Point Reyes NS, GGNRA and Maritime NHS are defining quiet space overhead!

it's great to read the comments! I am piloting quiet walks in everyday urban spaces in Singapore

hello from the UK in the middle of the night

That sounds really cool Cuifen!

:) thank you, Jason! I was hesitant to tell people about it as I wasn't sure if it's an idea people would support

Gordon Hempton - One Square Inch of Silence https://www.soundtracker.com/products/one-square-inch-silence/

Just curious about how everyone defines "quiet"... is it no sound? low volume of sound? sound other than those produced by human activity?...

Hello Cuifen. We’re practically neighbors! Curious to know more about quiet walks in Singapore.

fatima…anything but human generated noise

i have never experienced silence.

Thanks everyone for joining! If you have any questions, you can post them in the Q&A box. You can also upvote and comment. We’ll have some time to answer questions from everyone in just a bit.

I would say that "quiet" would include human sounds but not machines.

silence is emptiness

Quiet is a relative term.

We each have a truth about how we're experiencing life, and the truth is symphonic...

The deepest silence I've encountered was in a forest after a major bushfire. Deep ash on the ground, no leaves to rustle in the trees, no birds.

Hmmm, I can almost imagine that. Yes.

Deepest silence I've experienced... Torngat Mountains, Labrador, and plateau of the Lewis Hills, Nfld - one of the few places on planet that exposes the earth's mantle.

I think for me it would have been in a glow worm cave in New Zealand

will this be available later as a recording???

yes, the recording will be added to the event listing on the emergence site tomorrow, as well as available on FB.

If you look at the upper left corner of your screen, it says recording live on Facebook

and for those of us not on social media, please? how can we access this brilliant presentation? thank you.

thanks Emergence!!! 😁

I'm not on social media either. I suspect it might be on utube

Normally, to is sent through the email you registered.

good point! thank you, pamela...

Emergence web site

*it is

grateful and appreciative of bringing awareness to our sensory organs and process of sensing as relational as breathing within this cosmic being. sadly, our senses are overwhelmed and easily taken for granted.

A very relevant part of the urban design & landscape architecture conversations. Active design not just mitigation design!

reductionist science is the sad norm of education

beautiful invitation into beauty allowing it to stir primal currents within us. thank you.

The sound of your voices, my thoughts and around me in , for the world, touch and inspire me. THANK YOU!🙏

"wild" defined by whites after dispossessing indigenous peoples from their territories so they could pursue "recreation " 👎

Learn more and order David Haskell’s book “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction”: https://www.ptreyesbooks.com/book/9781984881540

something to think of Ansu

"Music is not in the notes but in the silence in between"

Beautiful wow!

(one reason why Haskell referred to the use of wild as problematic)

great, thank you

Grateful for your beautiful presentation and reading. 🙏🏼

This has been pure poetry . . . riveting, resonant, and revealing. Thank you. 🙏

The neighbors dog barking doesn't help this ending

Haha @ Leese - this is a constant bother to my ears lol

But isn’t that dog singing?

No he's not singing he's letting me know that Kevin the neighbors cat is at my dor

hahaha @michael, yes, a personal exercise in equanimity for sure 🙂

Kia ora David from Aotearoa (NZ)

Thank you David, Emergence, and Pt Reyes bookstore for this superb conversation. A special joy to hear you read your beautiful, thoughtful, inspiring and insightful book. The moments of silence in between the words convey such poetry.

Shiva!

carrie its an alarm

Checkout our latest release by David Haskell, "When the Earth Started to Sing," a sonic experience about the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth: https://emergencemagazine.org/audio-story/when-the-earth-started-to-sing

Thank you, Emmanuel for asking my question. And thank you David for your generous response. Food for thought and food for the soul—taking action for beauty and finding fulfillment in sensory connection. My heart is full.

Thank you for that very interesting response to my questiton

I have made several recordings with my phone when I am hiking or for example, visiting another environment- for example the coquis frogs in Hawaii or the calls of sandhill cranes. When I listen to them, it takes me back to the edge of the field where I watched and heard thousands of cranes-back to the miraculous experience of having the privilege of being there

@pamela, i love that — the sound of grackles when i step out of the airport are the first signal that i’ve returned HOME 🙂 i have taken recordings to listen to when i’m homesick

Mahalo nui to you all it was great zoom interaction with big words and creative questions

i have just been reading David Abrams 💚💚💚💚💚💚

Carrie Morton are you island girl too?!

Thank you!

What did you type David? You must have posted to just the author and Host.

Singing Alive was founded on singing to the Forest through having only voice only, So much healing for the singers and the earth, Joyful!

Leese, no i’m from Texas — i think grackles are fairly widespread across the south/ central america, sounds like islands too??

Thank you all for joining us tonight and to Emmanuel and Emergence Magazine for helping to make this possible. We can’t wait until David is able to join us in person in Point Reyes again, hopefully in the not too distant future.

what did David Abrams say about Ethics did anyone catch that please?

There is a Luther in Detroit who makes instruments from reclaimed wood from derelict homes — so a third life for these trees.

From the Garden of the Great Spirit, 1000 islands region of St. Lawrence River which speaks with many voices, THANK YOU!

David Abram “So I’m hearing David say ethics needs to be grounded in aesthetics. Indeed, genuine aesthetics (or deep aesthetics) IS an Ethics…..a new word: AESTETHICS!”

*luthier*

Yes, crackle of our frog friends, Carrie thanks

Thank you, wonderful presentation

thank you Emergence!!! 😍

Such an exciting talk, thank you David and everyone <3 <3 also i love this description of music as intimate wowza!

Thank you so much. My heart is singing.

may the music of this conversation along with the breathing of all the listeners continue to heal the world as we find it inviting us to do

Learn more and order David’s book “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction”: https://www.ptreyesbooks.com/book/9781984881540

Magnificent presentation. Thank you!

wonderful conversation

Thank you David, Emergence, deeply nourishing.

Checkout our latest release by David Haskell, "When the Earth Started to Sing," a sonic experience about the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth: https://emergencemagazine.org/audio-story/when-the-earth-started-to-sing

Learn more and order David’s book “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction”: https://www.ptreyesbooks.com/book/9781984881540