10 Ways to Listen to Trees

Their vibratory energies reveal humanity’s many connections with forests

Trees are full of song. Wind clatters and hisses through leaves and needles, insects stridulate, ice rends weakened wood, people chatter on the street below, and mechanical noises reverberate within trunks. Some tree sounds are too high for our ears, but can be heard with the right microphones. Under the acoustic surface are the hidden songs, the stories heard when we follow sounds to their sources. To attend to a tree’s song is therefore to touch a stethoscope to the skin of a landscape, hearing what stirs below.

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