Undersound: The Secret Lives of Ponds and the Mysterious Musicality of the World

“The book of love is full of music,” sings Peter Gabriel. “In fact, that’s where music comes from.”

The book of love is written in the language of wonder — our best means of loving life more deeply. To love anything — a person, a pond, the world — is to see the wonder in it, to hear the music in it. Both love and wonder are in mysterious conversation with the deepest substrate of us, the complete message of which is unintelligible to the analytical mind, inaccessible by any explanatory model. B...