81 Quotes by Julian Treasure

Unlike so many other sounds, there's no maximum exposure to birdsong.

People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it's when birds stop singing that people need to worry.

Sound in a space affects us profoundly. It changes our heart rate, breathing, hormone secretion, brain waves. It affects our emotions and our cognition.

Sound changes moods, yet most of the sound around us is unplanned.

It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have different filters.

I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on.

Noise is the number one problem in modern offices. A big part of addressing this issue is making sure unwanted sound from adjacent spaces doesn't intrude or interfere.

It's dangerous to generalise about sound because many of its effects work through association. These can be universal: we all instinctively associate any sudden, unexpected noise with danger and react with a release of fight/flight hormones, while most people find sounds like gentle rainfall or birdsong calming and reassuring.

It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes.