Sixty years after the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which shed light on species decline as a result of pesticides like DDT, noticing silences in nature and employing the rhetoric of silence in environmental literature continue. However, there is a simultaneous effort by writers to rethink and reimagine the audibility of “silent” beings like plants, worms, and glaciers. While sound is not often thought of as a feature of literary media, close-reading for sound shows literature’s capacity to imagine sound, silence, and …