B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 12, 2021

If a big tree falls in the woods and there’s no one there to hear it, would you make a sound?

… and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and saw.

There are almost certainly some living creatures around to here it.

If a man says something in the forest and his wife isn’t there to hear it, is he still wrong?

If a tree falls here, will you make a sound in the forest?

“There is trouble in the forest,”

“And the creatures all have fled.”

“As the maples scream Oppression!”

“And the oaks just shake their heads.” – Rush “Trees.”

If a tree falls in the woods and there are only deaf people there, does anyone hear it?

Obviously, it only makes a sound if I’M around to hear it.

Daisy is back. Been a long time.

If a tree falls on a daisy (before anyone sees it), did it really even exist? (Does it matter?)

If a man says something and his wife is not there, is he still wrong?

Well, I do care. Gots to watch me head while I’m at my usual business in the woods.

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me, and I didn’t hear a thing.

Steven Wright

Yes, if sound can cause an avalanche, then sound is made when the tree falls. Whether some is there to hear it or not.

Every tree’s death diminishes me, for I am involved in plantkind.

If a yellow daisy is speaking a soliloquy in the woods, and there is no one around to hear it, besides the trees, is it still a soliloquy by a daisy?

NO FILL-OSS-O-FEE BEFORE COFFEE!!! Can EVERYONE hear me??

A power move by privileged Xylo-Americans!

No one cares is right! Do you mind branching out so I get some sun today?

Copse a plea.

depends on the definition of “sound” one chooses

Poor little flower!!!

Sort of a grumpy little pollen pooter

I was pondering this the other day. How egocentric. If a human ain’t around it doesn’t count!?!

A tree fell in the Olympic National Forest, and now there is Puget Sound.

Is it darker at night than it is in the country? ;o}

This has always supposed to be some deep philosophical question…but it just boils down to how you define sound. You may as well ask if the tree fell if no one sees it fall.

This Philosophical question always seemed silly to me. The sound of a tree falling is a Physical Reality even if there are no witnesses to it.

The more telling question to me is how many waves similar to sound that pass by us on a continuous basis that most (if not all) of us are oblivious to.

Just wait until the sun is in the other half of the sky. Then you’ll be blocking THEIR sunlight.

I know that I do not care either.

Was this cartoon inspired by a Rush song?

Johnny Carson once did a comedy bit about this on “The Tonight Show”. He played what was purported to be a recording of a tree falling with no one around to hear it. Johnny appeared to have no punchline for it. An audience member, however, “bailed him out of it,” supposedly, by shouting “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!” The audience went nuts.

If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no wife there to hear it, is her husband still wrong?

I suppose the flower would care if it fell on it.

If a husband is in the woods and says something, is he still wrong.

What if someone is outside the woods but can still detect the compression waves created by the kinetic to mechanical energy conversion of the tree? Then the answer is yes.

It does not make a noise. It does cause vibrations.