Nature's Song Sleuth Prints

'Beetles...I heard if you listen to their songs backwards, there are cryptic messages.'

'He just burst into my campsite, and broke my banjo!'

Eco-Anxiety For All Seasons

Gardener Cutting Tree into 'Rock' Symbol.

"That's it, Tom. Here they come. Just keep playing 'Freebird.'"

By the year 2500, 1 in 10 academics will devote their entire career to divining the meaning of the word 'sussudio'.

Man and bird

'Uh-oh, here comes the mike again. Cut the barbershop quartet and go back to mournful whistling.'

'That's one hell of a mating call you've got there, Bob!'

music store

"My libido?...What the hell does this even mean?"

"We don't sell CDs anymore. We sell colorful jackets for the music you download illegally."

Cellist site reading birds on telephone wires.

"Don't worry, our new hearing aids are very good, and you'll be able to teach her how to sing pitch-perfect..."

Idenity Parade.

'It took me a while to find this gem, but the acoustics in this cave are amazing: let's jam!'

Natural Music

"The ambient nature sounds are making me too sleepy to hunt."

"And now a little number that asks the musical question 'Do you recognize this meat cleaver?'"

"The range and variety of their vocalizations was unequaled."

'I'm always exhausted after conducting Beethoven's Ninth.'

"Let it go, Carl!"

'...All the really cool stuff is way deeper in the woods.'

My annual treecation: A week away from work, sitting beneath a tree with a twist. My gadgets have run low on power, my mini portable generator has died. So not it's just me and you, tree. Just the two of us. True escape from the world. The boredom is destroying my soul. He won't last half-minute.

'It must be an entirely different species.'

"I can usually identify a bird by the song, but I think he's doing a cover."

Cello with a birdhouse on top.

A snake charmer is charming his hose to water his flowers

"Listen to those crickets. They sound lovely."

Quaver