posted February 26, 2012 09:16 AM            

Chapter 7--Forgotten Melodies, page 265

More evidence of the power of sound is birdsong. Assuming you don't live full time in the city, have you noticed the chorus of birdsong, like a thousand elfin choirs, all day long in the spring?
Have you also noticed that the birdsong ceases during the summer months, except at dawn and twilight ? When you're having a picnic in the woods or your back yard on a summer afternoon you'll hear only an occasional, faint chirp from the top of the tallest trees. Have you ever wondered why?
There's a magical reason for this little-known phenomenon of Nature. The singing of the birds sets up a particular sound vibration that promotes the growth of the young leaves of trees, plants and flowers, so the birdsong is fairly constant all day long in the spring, while the new growth is occurring.

In summer, the birdsong ceases, except at dawn and twilight -- and sometimes, if not quite all of the leaves are full, also during the early morning hours of summer. After the leaves are full the chemical activities of the trees, grass, plants and flowers change every day in the summer -- at dawn and at twilight. At night, all plant life breathes in carbon dioxide. At dawn and early morning, in the summer, they breathe out pure oxygen. The times of the changeover are heralded by the birds; are actually stimulated by the birdsong, but the sterile rules of biology recognize only the synchronicity of it, typically ignoring the clear evidence of cause and effect, unable to explain any other reason for Nature's precise timing of the seasonal and daily fluctuations of birdsong. In winter months, of course, St. Francis' beloved feathered friends fly south, to where other green miracles need the growth signals of the sound of their singing.

Isn't it lovely to know that the birds tell the grass, plants, trees and flowers when to grow, by setting up the sounds necessary to their chemical activity by singing -- all day long in the spring, and at dawn and twilight in the summer ? How can anyone think that birds lead useless, lazy lives? There's a reason for their singing ! I'm sure that Francesco Bernadone knew all about this truth of Nature.

How superbly logical, then, for the word NATURE to contain the word TUNE, since NATURE herself creates the miracle of the song or the TUNE of the birds causing the growth of Her green trees, grass, plants and colorful flowers. I couldn't suppress this mini-Lexigram until the next chapter; it's important that you meditate on it now. Nature does, indeed, consist of many chords of music, many sounds, including the "tunes" sung by the birds. Think about this wonderfur (full of wonder) proof of the way sound impresses itself on the ethers to manifest the physical "mattering" of the "matter" of all growing things. The birdsong is necessary to Nature outdoors because various unseasonal and unexpected climatic conditions would otherwise frequently halt growth -- and greenhouse plants, artificially grown, would thrive more luxuriantly if recorded birdsong were played to them.

Why aren't children taught this natural magic in school?

posted February 26, 2012 05:13 PM            

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How superbly logical, then, for the word NATURE to contain the word TUNE, since NATURE herself creates the miracle of the song or the TUNE of the birds causing the growth of Her green trees, grass, plants and colorful flowers.

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posted February 26, 2012 05:43 PM            

A TUNER

NATURE
Lexigrams to:

TURN AN EAR NEAR
TAE A TRUE NATURE TUNE
RATE A NATURE TUNE
NET A TRUE ART
A NEAT TUNE
RAN TRUE
TURN RA TAE TEAR
AT NATURE TUNE
AN UR TUNE TRUE
TRUE NATURE ART ERA NEAR
NAE RUT RUN
NAE RUE AT NATURE TUNE
RUN A TRUE TUNE
NATURE TUNE RAN TRUE
ARE A TRUE TUNE

posted February 26, 2012 07:36 PM            

I wonder if she played birdsong to her growing houseplants.

posted February 27, 2012 12:32 AM            

here's a little cutie for you:

posted February 27, 2012 08:28 AM            

In TX the mockingbirds sang a different dawn song each morning and to my chick a dee and robin midwestern ear, it was such a treat!

posted February 28, 2012 10:03 PM            

The Healing Wisdom of Birds
by Lesley Morrison

*An everyday guide to their spiritual songs and wisdom"

handly little book to have around. full of wisdom.
http://www.llewellyn.com/journal/article/2175

posted April 07, 2013 12:01 PM            

The birds are cheeping their little heads off here this morning, and I thought of Linda's quote; and I searched 'til I found it
I posted this quote somewhere at LL too, but google caught yours, which gives me the opportunity to say "Hi, and Happy Spring!"