The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
We think the problem is out there, when the problem is really in here - who we are and how we experience… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Acoustic ecology is the study of information systems: the shared acoustic environment and how species send and receive messages in this shared acoustic environment.… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
If you're listening to a symphony, you're getting all the information, including the audience around you, the delay from the sides of the concert… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze the landscape… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
You can listen to a birdsong, and from the content of the birdsong, you will be able to determine whether or not the bird… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
You don't really need to engage your visual sense, because the natural wiring of the human psyche is to monitor the environment through sound,… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
I believe that our distant nomadic ancestors came forward and survived because they could hear distant, faint birdsong as an acoustic navigational beacon, if… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
How are we going to know what sounds are important before we've even heard those sounds? It's an absurd question. The only thing we… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
What visual information does is it creates priorities. You cannot know with certainty what lies behind something else. There are very few transparent materials… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Not only does the modern person often think that sight is more important than sound - there's no objective evidence to indicate that. Many… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a number-one environmental concern,… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
The normal way of gathering information is through sound: when you hear information that you want to gather, you look in its direction, you… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
