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Many city dwellers suffer from learned deafness. Their sense of hearing doesn’t register the sounds of nature, including birds. During incoming vacations, when we should avoid crowds, we have a chance to regain lost contact with nature. It is worth to do it for your own health. Let’s start by searching for silence.
Everything has been written about the nuisance of noise: it causes neurosis and chronic exhaustion and fatigue, reduces productivity at work, affects the nervous system, distracts and distracts us, and, of course, causes deafness. What is not written (because it was not known) is that the excess of decibels of artificial origin gradually deprives us of sensitivity to the sounds of nature. We do not hear them, or at least this fact does not reach our consciousness. This phenomenon was discovered by Kurt Fristrup, a scientist involved in recording the sounds of nature. He worked for many years at Cornell University in the US, and now leads a team of bioacousticians who monitor the condition of nature in national parks in the US and Europe and eavesdrop around the clock to determine the richness of species in a forest or meadow in this unusual way. Fristrup and his colleagues also measure human noise in theoretically wild landscapes. For a quarter of a century, he has observed how this noise has gradually encroached on pristine corners that were completely quiet a few years earlier. In a…
