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Notes from the Wild: The Nature Recording Expeditions of Bernie Krause

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For readers interested in the perspective of a naturalist who has spent thousands of hours in the wild listening to its sounds, this is the book for you, and the accompanying cd gives you the sounds and feel of being there. I enjoyed Krause's writing of being in the wild and learning techniques to record sounds. He shares significant insights from his experiences. He writes as someone who has truly fallen in love with the wild and its music. He does not write as an unreasonable fanatic who exalts nature above souls, but he sees nature and the souls of humans as part of the God's creation and symbiotic. I appreciated his gentle, respectful tone throughout the book. His passion is conveyed in his writing and so is his sorrow over the destruction of so many of the environments where he recorded. This book really gave me a better understanding of the value and richness of nature, and the cd recordings can't be beat.