Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World
ISBN-10
1640093680
ISBN-13
9781640093683
Category
Nature
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2021-02-16
Publisher
Catapult
Author
Kathleen Dean Moore

Description

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?

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