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Recommended ReadsJanuary 19th, 2021

TREES 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

Dan Woods
Dan Woods, General Manager, Business Operations

In 2020, I did not get on an aeroplane for ten months straight. This is somewhat of an anomaly in my adult life, which has featured rather more plane travel than is perhaps healthy or, increasingly, ethically defensible.

Last year in place of plane trips, I took to exploring the farther reaches of Canberra’s Centenary Trail, a hundred-kilometre loop through the protected bushland that encircles the capital. Out there, you realise how noisy planes are, and how striking it is to be able to hear one well before you can see it.

Fortunately, Tree.fm has assembled a collection of (planeless) recordings of forests around the world. From the frogs and dogs of a Hong Kong reservoir to the buzz of insects on a Portuguese hillside in summer, I’ve found listening to the outside enormously grounding for all the times I am deskbound inside.


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