"For more of us living in the midst of modern industrialized cultures, hearing has become a blur. As much of the world population shifted from agarian to industrial economies, the local folk soon realized their aural environment was being transformed: railroads and factories drastically altered the land- and soundscapes, and we bent our lives to the age of the machine and all the noise that the era has brought with it."

 

Wild Soundscapes, Bernie Krause