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At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the face of climate change.

In this meditation on the music of the natural world, Moore celebrates the call of loons, howl of wolves, bellow of whales, laughter of children, and shriek of frogs, even as she warns of the threats against them. Each group of essays moves, as Moore herself has been moved, from celebration to lamentation to bewilderment and finally to the determination to act in defense of wild songs and the creatures who sing them.

Music is the shivering urgency and exuberance of life ongoing. In a time of terrible silencing, Moore asks, who will forgive us if we do not save nature's songs?

ISBN-13: 9781640095304

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Catapult

Publication Date: 02-22-2022

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Kathleen Dean Moore is the author or co-editor of many books about our moral and emotional bonds to the wild, reeling world, including Wild Comfort, Moral Ground, and Great Tide Rising. She is the recipient of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Association Award and the Oregon Book Award, along with the WILLA Literary Award for her novel Piano Tide. A philosopher and activist, Moore writes from Corvallis, Oregon and Chichagof Island, Alaska.

Table of Contents

Preface / The Work of Loving the World xv

Prologue / The Music in Their Bones 3

1 Tremble

Symphony No. 9, Scored for Cactus 11

Earth's Wild Music 18

The Sound of Human Longing 23

Praise Songs I-VII (When Darkness Turns Unexpectedly to Light) 27

The Love Child of Father Time and Mother Earth 34

Repeat the Sounding Joy 43

Songs in the Night 53

Listening for Bears 61

2 Weep

The Tadpole Motet 69

The Silence of the Humpback Whale 75

The Meadowlark's Broken Song 85

The Terrible Silence of the Empty Sky (Intergalactic Space) 92

The Terrible Silence of the Empty Sky (Forest) 99

The Terrible Silence of the Empty Sky (Seashore) 105

Twelve Heartbreaking Sounds That Will Remain 113

Sorrow Fired to the Strength of Stone 115

3 Awaken

Living Like Birds 121

Sleep, Judy Francine 130

Alarm Calls 137

Another Marshland Elegy 142

Late at Night, Listening 150

Silence Like Scouring Sand 158

The Song of the Canyon Wren 166

How Can I Keep from Singing? 171

4 Sing Out

After the Fire, Silence and a Raven 183

We Will Emerge Full-Throated from the Dark Shelter of Our Despair (The Dawn Chorus) 191

The Sound of Mountains Melting 196

Rachel's Wood Pewee (On Wonder) 204

Hear the Wind Blow 212

Be the Bear 218

Hope Is Not the Thing with Feathers (A History) 228

Why We Won't Quit 235

Epilogue / Sing Out from the Mountaintops 239

Acknowledgments / A Chorus of Friends 245

Notes 247