Richard Blackmore

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

English Poet

James Righton

I'd say dance is as relevant to us as, say, pop. It's as relevant as electronica, as relevant as ambient or experimental music. I wouldn't say it's something we spend more time on than any other genre.

English Musician

Bill Laswell

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

American Musician

Lupe Fiasco

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

Jeffrey Tate

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

Jonathan Nolan

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

British Writer

Grimes

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

Canadian Musician

David Rose

Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products.

Steven Wilson

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

Jenny Zhang

Chinese Actress

Ambient often describes conditions like temperature or light affecting an area.

Environmental conditions

'Ambient' suggests indirect influence, not a direct intervention.

No direct impact

Ambient elements change the feel of a place without dominating attention.

Perception enhancer

In music, 'ambient' refers to sound that sets a background atmosphere.

Atmosphere creator

Ambient music often blends with the environment and is not meant to be the focus.

Not a focal point

Ambient music subtly enhances an environment without overwhelming it.

Subtle presence

Here, 'ambient' means related to the broader setting or condition present.

Environment context

Ambient can describe something omnipresent or affecting everything subtly.

Subtly pervasive

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 springs and I would sort of just drift down there behind them and be very patient and wait until they allowed me into their world you know photographically I was shooting at very very high speeds this is right around sunset so there's very little ambient light I'm shooting it maybe

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 during the day the soundscape changes so in the morning it's very calm relaxed and ambient and as there's more energy in the day as well as in the Beehive the triggers more sounds so in the morning we might have a cello or piano but in the afternoon we might have guitars

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 claims to have identified the first bird species that creates singing sounds with the feathers of their wings deep in an ambient cloud forest this male club winged manikin is courting females Kimberley Bostwick at Cornell set out to prove that the bird was using its wing

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 above ambient temperature amazing and if you look down into it this is sort of down past the spadix the Flies get attracted by the heat which is boiling off volatile chemicals at little midges and they get trapped underneath in this container they drink

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 were attributable to household and ambient air pollution, with most occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Ambient air pollution alone causes more deaths each year than malaria and HIV/AIDS.

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 You watch the video with superimposed graphics that indicate your depth and compass heading. The fluid graphics and ambient sounds combine to help you completely lose yourself underwater.)

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 But when the ice is frozen solid, and there are no big temperature shifts or current changes, the underwater Arctic has some of the lowest ambient noise levels of the world's oceans.

How human noise affects...

 and measured way in which life links us to the obligatory. But this is a space that is actually filled with people, disembodied voices, and out of that ambient environment,