Earths Wild Music, Kathleen Dean Moore
Earths Wild Music, Kathleen Dean Moore
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Earth's Wild Music
Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

Author: Kathleen Dean Moore

Narrator: Daniela Acitelli

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/28/2021

Synopsis

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?

About Kathleen Dean Moore

Kathleen Dean Moore is the author or coeditor 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on February 23, 2022

Except during the lockdown to slow the COVID-19 virus, cities drown us in sound. Buses grind gears, trucks beep, and street-corner preachers call down damnation on it all—what does this do to the human being, whose ears evolved as a warning system? In daylight, our eyes can warn us of danger in f......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on May 18, 2021

4/19/20 I'm rereading this (see original review below). And as I did last time, and now that I know what's coming I'm more confident about this, I'm reviewing the experience a mere 50 pages into my second reading. What I realize this time is that Kathleen Dean Moore makes you fall in love--with Earth......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on February 24, 2021

Kathleen Dean Moore's nature writing is bright and beautiful, and this book is especially dazzling because she incorporates her love of music throughout the whole book. But this book is also depressing, from start to finish. An author can choose to write whatever they want about their subject, narro......more

Goodreads review by Roryann on September 18, 2021

This lyrical and profound series of essays played on my heartstrings. Lovely music 🎶 and lamentations of what we have done to the planet, what future generations will be missing. 5 ➕......more

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