Hey, it's Guy here. So what if I told you that every single living organism makes a sound

from viruses to giant whales? They all make sounds and not only sounds but connected sounds,

patterns that make up nature's soundscape? Well, on this episode, we explore the amazing ways

nature makes order in our world. It's called Everything Is Connected and it originally aired in

September of 2013. This is the Ted Radio Hour. Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.

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The gift of the human imagination. We've had to believe in impossible things.

The true nature of reality beckons from just beyond those talks, those ideas adapted for radio

from NPR. I'm Guy Ross and today's show is about how everything is connected. How

teeny tiny, almost imperceptible changes to our natural world can have a profound impact on

everything within it even us. And today, we're going to hear from Ted Speakers who will explain why

every flower, every insect, every animal, even every sound has a very specific, very crucial role

in keeping it all in balance. We're going to start with a story about wolves, which is the sound

we're all enjoying at the moment. Anyway, a few years ago, the British writer and environmentalist

George Monbiot got really into them into wolves and it happened in the middle of a midlife crisis.

I'd like to point out that I didn't buy a motorbike or a C-Cach.

This is George. I found myself as I got older just scratching at the walls of it, not

feeling that I was sufficiently exercised that I had so many faculties which weren't being used.

I was, I believe, ecologically bored. I says the opening from his TED Talk. And it was only when I

stumbled across an unfamiliar word that I began to understand what I was looking for. And as soon

as I found that word, I realised that I wanted to devote much of the rest of my life to it.

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