Listen: Four Love Songs
Kathleen Dean Moore is a writer, moral philosopher, and environmentalist. Her
many books and awards include Holdfast: A Home in the Natural World, and Great
Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change,
and, most recently, Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of
the Natural World. In the following essay, "she considers the looming loss of
wild music heard in the songs of birds -- and the vital stories woven into them
that are calling for us to listen."