A version of “The Sound of Human Longing” originally appeared in Pine Island Paradox by Kathleen Dean Moore (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Kathleen Dean Moore. Reprinted with permission from Milkweed Editions. milkweed.org.
“Repeat the Sounding Joy” first appeared in Wild Comfort by Kathleen Dean Moore © 2010. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Puiblications, Inc., Boulder, Colorado. www.shambhala.com.
A version of “Songs in the Night” originally appeared in Pine Island Paradox by Kathleen Dean Moore (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Kathleen Dean Moore. Reprinted with permission from Milkweed Editions. milkweed.org.
“Listening for Bears” is a revision of my article “Bear Sign (On Joyous Attention),” published in Tom Fleischner, ed., The Way of Natural History (Trinity University Press).
“The Silence of the Humpback Whale” can also be found online in the Ecological Citizen.
“The Angelus,” an essay included in “The Meadowlark’s Broken Song,” was first published in abbreviated form in Moral Ground, edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson © 2010 (Trinity University Press).
In “The Terrible Silence of the Empty Sky (Seashore),” the ghost-net scene is adapted from a passage in my novel, Piano Tide (Counterpoint).
“Twelve Heartbreaking Sounds That Will Remain” was first published in Orion.
“Living Like Birds” was first printed in French translation in America.
A version of “Late at Night, Listening” originally appeared in Pine Island Paradox by Kathleen Dean Moore (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Kathleen Dean Moore. Reprinted with permission from Milkweed Editions. milkweed.org.
“Silence Like Scouring Sand” was first printed in somewhat different form in Orion.
“The Song of the Canyon Wren” is reprinted from Holdfast by Kathleen Dean Moore © 1999. Reprinted by arrangement with Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon. www.osupress.oregonstate.edu.
“How Can I Keep from Singing?” is adapted from my article of the same name, published in Goodrich, Moore, and Swanson, eds., In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens © 2008. Reprinted by arrangement with Oregon State University Press.
A version of “After the Fire, Silence and a Raven” originally appeared in Pine Island Paradox by Kathleen Dean Moore (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Kathleen Dean Moore. Reprinted with permission from Milkweed Editions. milkweed.org.
Portions of “We Will Emerge Full-Throated from the Dark Shelter of Our Despair (The Dawn Chorus)” can be found online in Terrain.org’s series “Dear America.”
“Rachel’s Wood Pewee (On Wonder)” is a revised and expanded version of “The Truth of the Barnacles: Rachel Carson and the Moral Significance of Wonder,” in Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge, coedited by Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore and published by the State University of New York in 2008.
“Why We Won’t Quit” is a variation of an essay that appeared online in Earth Island Journal. Special thanks to its coauthor, SueEllen Campbell.
Portions of the Epilogue were first printed in Great Tide Rising by Kathleen Dean Moore © 2016. Reprinted by arrangement with Counterpoint Press, Berkeley, California.