If it's not the most elemental sound we know, it's close. At times it means that the weather will be cooler or colder for a while. It may dry things off after a rainstorm, or spread the rain if the storm continues.
At bottom, though, wind means that the world continues. That the silent beat still runs under nature. In its simplicity, wind is a beautiful sound. Something that belongs to us all.
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I've always been entranced by the poems of Rainer Rilke:
A Walk
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far beyond the road I have begun,
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has an inner light, even from a distance-
and changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave…
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
That's a magnificent soundscape you've presented. I've complained more than once about having been raised in the countryside where there was little opportunity to make friends. But what was good about it was very good: the lake, of course, and being able to walk across the fields to the woods that seemed infinite. I'll always remember summer afternoons lying on the grass listening to the wind sough through the trees, the sound of the
Earth breathing.
I haven't read as much of Rilke as I probably should have, although I do know that his full name was René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, a true mouthful. Of the poems of his that I have read the one that you reproduced here is my favorite. It has breathtaking turns of phrase and thought.
Probably everyone, when they're a kid, wishes they were anywhere but where they live, at least sometimes. You eventually realize what's good, though. Wherever children grow up, I think it's good if they can get to where nature is just doing its thing. The area surrounding the lake was beautiful.
Field recordings are sometimes nice to listen to, to just appreciate the sound. You have to be specific in your requests on YouTube if you're looking for something that doesn't have narration or background music.
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