Individual trees each sing distinct sonic textures a patient listener can analyze

Evidence

Each was expressing itself in its own way—singing its own song, and making its own peculiar textures…. The profound bass of the naked branches and boles booming like waterfalls; the quick, tense vibrations of the pine-needles, now rising to a shrill, whistling hiss, now falling to a silky murmur; the rustling of laurel groves in the dells, and the keen metallic click of leaf on leaf—all this was heard in easy analysis when the attention was calmly bent… — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1649

Categorization

• SEED: Model passage for nature-writing: precise, layered sensory enumeration of sound — directly instructive for the reader learning Muir-style description.
• XREF: John Muir quoted by Hempton — ties the reader’s literary lineage interest to a concrete example of nature sound-writing. — connects to: Patient listening is necessary to be transformed by a sonic experience — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 466
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1649