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noted as being one of the most 
dangerous predators in that 
region.
” 
While his recordings have 
taken him into dangerous 
grounds, he and his wife, 
Katherine, endured the most 
frightening encounter with 
nature in 2017, when their 
California home of 25 years 
burned down among massive 
fires, destroying treasured 
possessions and biophonic 
attractions along their extended 
property.
While lamenting the loss of 
field journals, slides dating back 
a half-century and a Manouk 
Papazian guitar he played at 
Carnegie Hall among many 
other keepsakes, Krause is grate-
ful that natural sound archives 
survive.
Over 50 years, he collected 
more than 5,000 hours of record-

ings of natural environments 
including at least 15,000 terres-
trial and marine species from 
around the world. 
“During our dicey pre-dawn 
flight, we came face-to-face with 
the malevolent eye of global 
heating and its horrific conse-
quences as we bolted through 
the wall of fire that had envel-
oped our driveway — our sole 
one-way path to whatever life 
now remains to us,
” said Krause, 
turning to new projects. 
Readers can access his latest 
book, The Power of Tranquility 
in a Very Noisy World (Little, 
Brown), which addresses the 
issue of noise in complex sur-
roundings — how noise affects 
health and well-being and what 
can be done to mitigate the 
problem.
Although Krause would like 
to visit Israel, the trip would be 

more personal than professional.
“Most of Israel’s habitats have 
been so radically altered by 
human endeavor that I really 
can’t use the recordings for the 
focus of my work,
” said the for-
mer Detroiter, whose outlook 
also applies across America. 
“I need to work in older, more 
remote sites that express them-
selves as close to uncompro-

mised as possible.
“I think of natural sound-
scapes as narratives of place and 
time. There’s a divinity to those 
collective utterances that speaks 
to me of the values and wonders 
of the living world. Nothing, to 
me, takes precedence. The stories 
told to me through those utter-
ances are my window into what 
is Divine in the universe.
” 

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