Comments on: and if there is no one?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:08:07 +0000

I concur with an earlier post, yes, it would make a sound as sound is created vibration. Very interesting response Han, I enjoyed reading it.

By: Leandro

Leandro — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:21:20 +0000

To me it makes no sound. We humans are the only ones on the planet that we are well aware of things. The other animals just follow their instincts. The lion kills to feed his family, we can kill just to have a clock. Even with eight years, we know that one day we will die, animals spend their lives just by following instincts, they do not care about death, not afraid of tomorrow, or become with insomnia because of a problem.
So for me the tree falling in a deserted forest makes no noise.
If humans do not exist, nobody is going to define what love, what sorrow, what joy is.
No colors, smells, tastes. Because the other animals just follow their instincts, they have no conscience.

By: Dola

Dola — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:19:40 +0000

To the question about the tree , I don’t feel like saying anything, just take a deep breath and exhale out “hmnnn”.

By: ThatMarilyn

ThatMarilyn — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:49:53 +0000

What difference does it make? Does it matter to the tree? What can be said about an event that was not witnessed, or experienced? Are our assumptions based on past experience accurate, true, correct? Paradox, dichotomy and everything in between. Meanwhile, words dance around in the air until they rest in a temporary sequence waiting to be shuffled once again to yet another conclusion.

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By: Priya

Priya — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:34:30 +0000

FALL…fails to produce any impact on anyone…everyone wants to be a part of victory , celebration , attracts multitude but Fall brings isolation… no matter how big tree was or how significant it was but the fact remains the same that it was falling.anyone s presence nearby or not wont alter it so whether tree screams or not it will remain unheard in the land of deaf people.

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:24:28 +0000

Sadly, It does. Sadly, no one hears in spite of so much want of the tree to be heard and consoled. And it sheds tears silently with pain and there’s no one to see or caress! Like us sometimes, when something inside us gets hurt no one knows but we do feel pain…and cry silent trees@

By: Jackie noriega

Jackie noriega — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:19:50 +0000

AUNQUE NO HAYA NADIE EN EL BOSQUE SI EL ARBOL CAE SONARA HABRA UN ESTRUENDO Y HARA FALTA PARA MUCHOS SERES VIVOS EN EL BOSQUE

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:47:10 +0000

No, it doesnt make a “Sound”.

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:59:52 +0000

O som, assim como tudo é uma vibração. Muito embora não ecoe nos ouvidos de ninguém ela está presente e termina ecoando no ambiente e nas demais árvores.

By: nishq

nishq — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:46:55 +0000

to itself, yes…
to the forest, yes…
to our ears, no…

By: Survive Infidelity

Survive Infidelity — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:47:51 +0000

I think it does make a sound only to a living creature who listens…if nobody is there to listen, then there won’t be any sound at all…sound is only present to those who can listen.

By: muzna

muzna — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:56:52 +0000

it will definitely make a noise but it will be up to us whether we hear it or not.

By: barbara

barbara — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:18:26 +0000

yes, the others trees will make sound with the vibrations and shaking of thier leaves, and the echo will be heard…

By: Pilar

Pilar — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:31:44 +0000

Tiene sonido para sí mismo, y suena con más fuerza que si hubiera alguien cerca

By: David Calivala

David Calivala — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:44:58 +0000

O som é produzido em nossas mentes. e não praticamente nas acçoes naturais, pois um pai que muito fala para filhos sem alguma razão espiritual, de certeza, jamais será ouvido.

By: faith

faith — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:31:17 +0000

Yes, the tree will still make a sound even if it is alone. Her faith that even in the vastness of the forest and the thickness of the foliage around her, someone-somewhere will hear that she had fallen.
Same as true as our faith in God, even in the chaotic world we are in God hears even the minute sound of our calls.

By: Carina

Carina — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:33:07 +0000

My spontaneous answer is yes. The tree still make a sound since sound is vibrations.

By: mafatmo

mafatmo — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:14:03 +0000

a good speaker needs a good listener or vice versa

By: Shiv

Shiv — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:24:39 +0000

When a great tree falls the earth does shake… you or me may not hear it now but a time will to come… and a piece of history will remain hidden to be found to the one who was looking for it…

By: denise

denise — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:34:49 +0000

yes, there are other ceatures everywhere to hear it. No one thing or person is ever totally alone, unheard.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:39:26 +0000

Or the modern version ‘if a man talks in the middle of a forest and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?’

By: Violeta Cristina Nuñez

Violeta Cristina Nuñez — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:36:06 +0000

at work i just take time I say a little pray for you, my boyfriend Osvaldo, forever, ever will never apart
My darling believe me for me there’s no one but you…say you love me too answer my prayer…
Say a little pray for you Osvaldo, wondering what dress to wear together we i run for the bus dear, and thruogh my coffe break i think about you,
for ever ever together it must be…My darling believe me for me theres no one but you beliver me, say you love me too, I’m in love with you…

By: Violeta Cristina Nuñez

Violeta Cristina Nuñez — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:53:31 +0000

women’s and health
men’s and health
vibrations and medicine…
Laboratory and economy…
dirty bussiness?

By: Han

Han — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:35:00 +0000

I think it does if it follows the law of physics as we understand it. It causes vibrations. If no ears are present to hear it, then no it doesn’t make a ‘sound’ but it would still make a vibration. Even deaf people can write and make music if they can pick up the vibrations instead. The ‘sound’ is a product of the human sense of hearing, so it is possible that the tree does not make a sound if no one is there to hear it. On the other hand Quantum Physics experiment shows that when an experiment is not watched or witnessed by a person or sensors of a machine, the usual laws of physics go out the window and ‘magic’ or unexpected ‘impossible’ reactions can happen. So maybe the tree might do something else… ie. perhaps no vibrations or sound may occur… or maybe it could make a different type of sound.

By: Poornima

Poornima — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:40:32 +0000

no one here the sound of falling trees.. once it falls others will cry… its human nature…

By: Penny Lane

Penny Lane — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:45:45 +0000

what if we have found someone, but he/she is not belong to us? can we still call it “if there is no one”?

or there was someone but now no one?

By: Burnt Raisin

Burnt Raisin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:31:00 +0000

At a glance, we think the answer to this doesn’t matter. So what if it does? And the hell we care if it doesn’t? Humanity is truly sick with so much indifference. Its almost a plague. And I am no different because I am also part of humanity. When a tree falls, it makes a sound. Even when I am not around. Just as a hungry child deserted by his parents, wails for food. He wails even if I cannot hear it. Or a mother who loses her child weeps. She mourns even if I cannot hear it. Or a stranger, robbed and beaten, cries for help. He seeks another’s presence, even when I am not entirely aware of it. Perhaps, it is when we are asked questions like this that we must remind ourselves that we all affect each other. A fallen tree diminishes the oxygen in the atmosphere. Just as our existence — in this world — diminishes humanity. As John Donne eloquently expressed, “Therefore send not for whom the bell tolls…it tolls for thee.”

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:52:50 +0000

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By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:46:38 +0000

of course it does, BUT the tree does not fall with no man around calling timber…….
so if a tree decides to fall by its own, i assume it will fall on another tree nearby, and that tree will give the right push back to its ‘feet’-roots.. and so it will not make a sound

and THAT’S VERY ZEN :O)

Love and Gratitude
Annie