It’s a true narrative, a story telling us that something is desperately wrong. Bernie Krause More Quotes by Bernie Krause More Quotes From Bernie Krause A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening. Bernie Krause silencesoundmen The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it. Bernie Krause torn-apartsoundneeds With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself. Bernie Krause spacenaturelistening Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding. Bernie Krause musicsilenceunderstanding Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you. Bernie Krause snakesanimallaughing
