Leaf Listener Gifts

Cover story: Plant World.

Audio Books

'Esther, is it possible, just possible mind you, that your green thumb has gone berserk?'

"If you hold a shell to your ear you can hear the ocean..."

"Ed's tree hugging was out of control."

Hey, it's true, you really can hear the sea in these shells!

Try me/try me/try me...

"I need him to stop think and start listening."

'It's true what they say, you really can hear the sea in these things!'

I can hear a podcast of yesterday's sea.

'Not even close man - easy listening's around the corner.'

Mozart's very good, but can't beat Rossini for sandbox activities.

Clive Anderson

'Hello, Pastor Parker here. Thank you for calling moral support. Your call may be monitored to ... '

'There you go again - trying to solve my problems. I am not asking you to do that. I just want you to listen to me.'

"Go ahead. Tell me your troubles. I promise to say 'Awww' in all the right places."

Attention Span Man

Psychiatrist with bartending diploma

'Music hath charms,' &c.

"I feel like my emotional baggage is permanently stuck on the luggage carousel."

Moses parting leaves in a forest.

I know they told me not to bark

It's so quiet. Listen to the sounds of nature! Pound pound thump. Pound thunk. Human nature.

"Sounds of the ocean upgrade...it's sounds of the antarctic icebergs cracking."

"I'll knock 10% off this session as I wasn't really listening."

"If you think I talk too much, you should come right out say so! That way we can talk about it."

"That's one hole filled, only about three or four more to go."

Science Applied to Art

"Are you coming in for dinner?"

'Time-outs might have more meaning when I learn to tell time.'

Onstage with the transgenic singers...

'I wonder if TED ever listens.'

'She doesn't know that listening is not the same as mentally rehearsing her answers.'

Here's your problem. You have an iPod.

"I'm a pastor. My job is to speak 20 minutes on Sunday and listen the rest of the week."