From the Book - First hardcover edition.
Preface: The Work of Loving the World
Prologue: The Music in Their Bones
1 Tremble: Symphony No. 9, Scored for Cactus ; Earth's Wild Music ; The Sound of Human Longing ; Praise Songs I-VII (When Darkness Turns Unexpectedly to Light) ; The Love Child of Father Time and Mother Earth ; Repeat the Sounding Joy ; Songs in the Night ; Listening for Bears
2 Weep: The Tadpole Motet ; The Silence of the Humpback Whale ; The Meadowlark's Broken Song ; The Terrible Silence of the Empty Sky (Intergalactic Space) ; The Terrible Silence of the Empty Sky (Forest) ; The Terrible Silence of the Empty Sky (Seashore) ; Twelve Heartbreaking Sounds That Will Remain ; Sorrow Fired to the Strength of Stone
3 Awaken: Living Like Birds ; Sleep, Judy Francine ; Alarm Calls ; Another Marshland Elegy ; Late at Night, Listening ; Silence Like Scouring Sand ; The Song of the Canyon Wren ; How Can I Keep from Singing?
4 Sing Out: After the Fire, Silence and a Raven ; We Will Emerge Full-Throated from the Dark Shelter of Our Despair (The Dawn Chorus) ; The Sound of Mountains Melting ; Rachel's Wood Pewee (On Wonder) ; Hear the Wind Blow ; Be the Bear ; Hope Is Not the Thing with Feathers (A History) ; Why We Won't Quit
Epilogue: Sing Out from the Mountaintops