When Nature Co-Authors a Song

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October 29, 2024 a project of ServiceSpace A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's. - Rainer Maria Rilke - When Nature Co-Authors a Song A song emerged around a campfire in the high forest of Equador where melodies of “echo-locating bats, howler monkeys, rustling leaves and even a subterranean recording of the soil” were crucial to the composition. In what would be a first, the co-authors have filed to make the Los Cedros cloud forest a moral author of the song. One of the co-authors, Robert Macfarlane, said: “It wasn’t written within the forest, it was written with the forest. This was absolutely and inextricably an act of co-authorship with the set of processes and relations and beings that that forest and its rivers comprise. We were briefly part of that ongoing being of the forest, and we couldn’t have written it without the forest. The forest wrote it with us.” { read more } Be The Change Explore your local ecosystem. Listen, as the natural sounds fill your heart. Add your heart's song in harmony, and "make the whole world into a sky within." COMMENT | RATE             DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 148,524 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More