Julian Treasure

It's dangerous to generalise about sound because many of its effects work through association. These can be universal: we all instinctively associate any sudden, unexpected noise with danger and react with a release of fight/flight hormones, while most people find sounds like gentle rainfall or birdsong calming and reassuring.

American

Michael Ashcroft

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

British Businessman

You are one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. I have a tip for you: if you work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on, and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be.

Joseph Jarman

In our eyes, heroes, gods, masters do not exist. We love and respect every musician, whether from the past, the future, or... someone who doesn't yet exist... just as much as birdsong interests us.

American Musician

People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it's when birds stop singing that people need to worry.

Robson Green

I love Hexham, where I live. And 'Grantchester' reminds me of Hexham a lot. Everything is alive; the birdsong, the flowers, the vegetation.

W. P. Kinsella

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

Canadian Novelist

Bettany Hughes

I do think that history lived, and a life lived, is as much to do with the birdsong you heard that morning as any great event.

Unlike so many other sounds, there's no maximum exposure to birdsong.

Birdsong often evokes feelings of peace and calm in literary and everyday contexts.

Emotional Effect

Using 'birdsong' highlights a connection to nature and the outdoors.

Nature Connection

'Birdsong' can be used to describe a scene vividly, using auditory imagery.

Descriptive Imagery

 sometimes you just have to eat it and see what happens. So I hope this talk has raised sound in your consciousness. If you're listening consciously, you can take control of the sound around you. It's good for your health and for your productivity. If we all do that, we move to a state that I like to think will be sound living in the world. I'll leave you with more birdsong.

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 Looking out of a tree boat in the morning and hearing birdsong coming in three dimensions around us. We had been visited in the night by flying squirrels, who don't seem to recognize humans for what they are because they've never seen them in the canopy before. And we practiced advanced techniques like sky-walking,

Richard Preston:...

 to improve your health with sound. My vision is of a world that sounds beautiful and if we all start doing these things, we will take a very big step in that direction. So I urge you to take that path. I'm leaving you with a little more birdsong, which is very good for you.

Julian Treasure: Shh!...

 And the novel’s omniscient third-person narration allows Hurston to unleash her poetic prose on everything from birdsong, architecture, and fashion, to her characters’ deepest feelings and motivations. Perhaps more than any specific details,

Can love and independence...

 he incorporated the sounds of birdsong that he heard outside his window in what he knew would be his last spring; he was imagining a future for her in which he would play no part. And clearly this composition is his final statement to her --

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 is help people understand this auditory event, and develop neutral associations with these often-distressing sounds. For example, sound therapy uses noises like rain, birdsong, or music to mask tinnitus and reduce stress.

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 The mornings are really cool. This time of year is also amazing because you're hearing all the birdsong earlier in the morning. The Willow Flycatcher is this small, plain bird. And it flies around and catches flies,

Feathers in Flight: The...

 I said isn't not even a breath of wind we're starting to get some lovely birdsong coming through I can hear Rufus

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 It's incredible. Perhaps the techniques of opera singing were inspired by birdsong.