nightingale
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He laid out the "hard problem" of working out how and why any of the complex operations of brains give rise to conscious experience, such as our emotional response when we hear a nightingale sing.
From BBC • May 25, 2025
Just as the familiar tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gradually builds speed “accelerando,” as the compositional notation is known, some birdsong does too, like that of the nightingale.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023
The nightingale gives its lifeblood to create a perfect red rose.
From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2020
Animals have always come and gone, medieval wolves, later Keats’ nightingale, later still a rare wallaby, spotted bounding through the trees in spring 2019.
From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020
The summer nightfall was unbroken by owls and so quiet that they could plainly hear the intermittent, monotonous “Chug chug chug” of a nightingale in the distant woods.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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