'Listening'' exuberantly praises the music inherit in and expressed by everything in nature, above all the myriad worlds of human nature. It sings of the great variety and contrast of the seasons of the earth and moods of the oceans, the single notes within a melody and the chords that comprise harmony. Music is viewed as the means through which the essence of life is made manifest, expressing the essential unity of all things, which underlies all the various forms that life assumes.