For most of his life, Gordon Hempton has been in pursuit of nature’s myriad of soundscapes as an acoustic ecologist. During that time, he has become a master of the skill of listening. In Being Hear he shares his insight on the constant and nuanced communications of nature, the alarming extinction of places unaffected by human activity, the way silence can open our eyes to the benefits of simply paying attention to place. Silence, as he puts it, “is the think tank of the soul."