Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.
BERNIE KRAUSE
BERNIE KRAUSE
Bernie Krause
Bernie Krause4 quotes“Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.”
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