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Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; [Unix] is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river.
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web.stanford.edu
There is an aliveness to fields that lawns do not have. Our small patio on a hill overlooks the tall grasses, which attract many birds and dance in the wind. Paths through fields are a simple way to capture a slight feeling of enclosure, you go from walking *over* the land to walking *through* the land.
Everything I Know About Gardening
Simon Sarris
Bakker introduced me to the term **biophony** to refer to sounds of living organisms, and **geophony** to refer to (as I understand it) natural but non-animal sounds, like waves crashing on a beach or wind in the trees.
Sound Tracking
Rob Walker Art of Noticing
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