“…acoustic must support the activity, and combine to foster the corporeal perceptual awareness that signifies an appropriate environment, and from this combination of environment and activity we develop a sense of place” (Paine 2009).

“As relief we consign areas of heavily manicured gardens to parks, conduits for memories of the source of life, the democracy of nature. Little wonder then that we have so little real affinity with nature, that we so rarely consider the relationship between behavior and environment at the human scale, our place in the system, our personal responsibility, our individual power for change” (Ibid).