Creativity Quote by Peter Garrett

Garrett’s line lands like a quiet alarm: not a manifesto, not a statistic, but a bodily diagnosis. “Our senses convey” is doing the real work. He’s not asking you to trust a report or a politician; he’s pointing to the smoke you can taste, the heat that doesn’t belong, the river that smells wrong. It’s a musician’s way of arguing - less about proof than about perception, the kind that bypasses ideology because it starts in the lungs and on the skin.

The subtext is a rebuke to the modern habit of outsourcing reality. Environmental harm often gets framed as abstract, incremental, debatable. Garrett flips that: the crisis is already intimate, already audible and visible, if you’re not numbing yourself with screens and “business as usual.” There’s also an implied “we” here that’s inclusive but pointed - a reminder that denial isn’t just ignorance, it’s a choice to ignore what the body keeps registering.

Context matters because Garrett isn’t merely a performer dabbling in causes; he’s a public figure whose career has long braided art, activism, and politics. That history gives the sentence a particular credibility: it’s not performative dread, it’s lived messaging. The restraint of “not well” is strategic, too. Understatement makes the claim harder to dismiss as hysteria. It invites recognition rather than argument, the way a good lyric does: you hear it and realize you already knew.