Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her newest collection, Moore selects essays that celebrate the music of the natural world as a reminder of what can be taken from us-the yowl of wolves, tick of barnacles, laughter of children, shriek of falling mountains. Alongside these selections are brand new essays born from the sorrow and iniquity of this new age of extinction, all bearing witness to the glories of this world and the sins against it. Each group of essays moves, as Moore...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The sounds of nature are being drowned out by the clamor of human activity, and that's not good for people, animals or the environment. Every living thing emits sound--birds sing, whales whistle, streams burble and trees pop and fizzle. Discover how the invasion of human sounds, from airplanes, traffic and machines, is threatening the survival of species that have adapted to their habitats over thousands of years."--
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A perfect summer day begins by a waterfall as it cascades into the river below, while birds sing and hawks glide gracefully overhead. Much later, deep into the night, crickets and frogs harmonize as we begin to hear the distinctive, beautiful and haunting calls of a mating pair of loons echoing across the stillness of an isolated forest lake.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In listening to cicadas, as well as other humming, clicking, and thrumming insects, Rothenberg considers the radical notion that we humans got our idea of rhythm, synchronization, and dance from the world of insect sounds that surrounded our species over the millions of years over which we evolved. He explores insect influences in classical and modern music, plays his saxophone with crickets and other insects, and confers with researchers and scientists...
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Relax with natural sounds from ocean dreams. Ocean dreams invokes the restful sounds of waves that can be heard when near a bay or ocean cove. These inlet sounds are alive with the sounds of water as it splashes amongst the large rocks and pebbles that make up the beach, as well as the playful cries of sea gulls and other birds that call the land near these coastal waters their home.
12) Sounds wild and broken: sonic marvels, evolution's creativity, and the crisis of sensory extinction
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A rich exploration of how the evolution of both natural and manmade sounds have shaped us and the world, and how the world's acoustic diversity is currently in grave danger of being destroyed. We live on a planet that is wrapped in the diverse acoustic marvels of song and speech. Yet never has this diversity been so threatened as it is now. Braiding his experience as a listener and an ecologist with the latest scientific discoveries, David Haskell...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Description
"When the world gets too loud and chaotic, a young boy's grandfather helps him listen with wonder instead. Kids laughing, sneakers squeaking, balls bouncing-for Thunder, the sounds of the school day often brew into overwhelming noise storms. But when Thunder's mosom asks him what he hears on an urban nature walk, Thunder starts to understand how sounds like bird wings flapping and rushing water can help him feel calm and connected. Gentle, inviting...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Shh - listen. Can you hear the quiet, loving sounds of the nighttime world? From moths fluttering their powdery wings, to a nightingale's sweet trills, to swaying willow trees softly shushing, shushing everyone to sleep, this rhythmic, rhyming lullaby will soothe and calm little ones.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request