It is drawn from his journals and photographs of trips he has made to some of the wildest places on Earth. But in a world changed radically by the two traumas of Covid and the climate crisis, David also shows us how he has listened to Life more simply: in an Italian village café, a Baltic archipelago or, crucially, near his own home in Aotearoa New Zealand. It tells of how he has entered into a deeper connection with nature through an immersion of all the senses, which begins with feet on soil, body in the ocean or breath on a mountaintop.