Culture
- The Aēdōn (Ancient Greek: Ὰηδών, "Nightingale") is a minor character in Aristophanes' 414 BC Attic comedy "The Birds".
- "The Owl and the Nightingale" (12th or 13th century) is a Middle English poem about an argument between these two birds.
- "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" was one of the most popular songs in Britain during World War 2
- John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" was described by Edmund Clarence Stedman as "one of our shorter English lyrics that still seems to me... the nearest to perfection, the one I would surrender last of all" and by Algernon Charles Swinburne as "one of the final masterpieces of human work in all time and for all ages".
- John Milton's sonnet "To the Nightingale" contrasts the symbolism of the nightingale as a bird for lovers, with the cuckoo as the bird that called when wives were unfaithful to (or "cuckolded") their husbands.
- The love of the nightingale for the rose is widely used, often metaphorically, in Persian literature.
- The beauty of the nightingale's song is a theme in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Nightingale" from 1843.
- In The Bird of Shadows and the Sun-Bird, a fairy tale by Maud Margaret Key Statwell, a young girl wishes to become a nightingale.
- A nightingale is depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 1 kuna coin, minted since 1993.
- A recording of nightingale song is included, as directed by the score, in "The Pines of Janiculum", the third movement of Ottorino Respighi's 1924 symphonic poem "Pines of Rome" (Pini di Roma).
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“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
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“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
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