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Rewilding Institute
@rewilding.org

Aldo Leopold wrote, “The penalty of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen.” An education in #sensory #biology is the awareness that much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to humans.

buff.lyBeyond the Human Umwelt: Silent and Invisible Sensory PollutionWe must not be deaf and blind to the importance of animal senses outside of hearing and vision and, correspondingly, sensory pollution beyond noise and light.

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Rewilding Institute
@rewilding.org

Biologist Jakob Johann von Uexküll coined the term #Umwelt to refer to the environment as it is experienced by a given organism, via the information available to that organism’s senses. Our human Umwelten do not necessarily represent the world as other animals perceive it.

buff.lyBeyond the Human Umwelt: Silent and Invisible Sensory PollutionWe must not be deaf and blind to the importance of animal senses outside of hearing and vision and, correspondingly, sensory pollution beyond noise and light.