The Singing Planet
«The singing, vocal planet that we inhabit today is, from the perspective of animal evolution, a recent emergence, one strangely, gloriously lush with living sound.»
The quotation is taken from the sonic journey «When the Earth Started to Sing» published 2022 in Emergence Magazin. Last accessed May 24, 2022.
Biography
David George Haskell is author of «The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors», winner of the 2020 Iris Book Award, the 2018 John Burroughs Medal, and named one of the Best Science Books of 2017 by NPR’s Science Friday. His first book, «The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature», was winner of the National Academies’ Best Book Award for 2013, finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, winner of the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award, and winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature. His latest book is «Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction». He is a professor at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Follow him on Instagram, Facebook, X.
Published on July 28, 2021
Last updated on June 27, 2022
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