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And those sounds you just heard were not a series of recorded bird sounds.

That's actually music producer and singer Snow Raven,

who is a member of the Saha people from the Arctic Siberia.

Born and raised in one of the most remote, cold places on earth,

she was only three years old when she started to learn the language, as she calls it one of the most remote cold places on earth, she was only three years old

when she started to learn the language, as she calls it, of the birds and the animals around her.

The first thing I did when I arrived was drop into silence and listen. Listening is one of the powerful gifts the universe has given humans to connect with

nature. Today we're re-sharing her talk and performance from 2024 where she shows us how she

mimics the sounds of life around her and what all of us can learn if we only take the time to stop and listen a little more.

That's coming up right after a short break. Nerion Nargui, this is the way indigenous Saka people greet one another.

This praise has no exact English translation, but it means I greet the universe in your person.

My name is Snow Raven, and I'm from the Republic of Sakha Yakutia in Arctic, Siberia.

The most cold, settled place on earth where winter's temperature can drop as low as negative 96 Fahrenheit.

So after six years being away from Sakha Yakutia, I returned this summer to see my family and also visit our ancestral home.

The first thing I did when I arrived was drop into silence and listen.

Listening is one of the powerful gifts the universe has given learned how to mimic nature.

I listen with my imagination and become an animal that I hear. I move like it moves.

I seek what it seeks. I cry with its cry. The owl, for instance, it has night, it has night vision, it can see all around him,

and it also flies without making a sound.

The Elie brown kite soars on a heated air,

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