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I usually choose to have a podcast or music on, but sometimes it's really nice to just appreciate my surroundings. I like to hear birdsong, or the wind, the rain. Even cars passing. It's nice to be grounded in the world.
Even when I have music, I spend most of my time when I walk (which is a lot) not looking down at the ground. I look around, and I try to appreciate the little things. The other day, I noticed a really, really polished front door on a house I was walking past. The wood was so bright red and all of the metal was this gleaming silver, it was really striking! There are wild parakeets in the city I live in, so getting the chance to see these beautiful green birds swoop overhead is a treat, too. Where I live is quite hilly, so getting to see what I think are beautiful views of the urban sprawl interspersed with big tree plumages in the green spaces is pleasant, too. Sometimes it's quite imposing, it's not always a pretty and cheery sight, but it's always beautiful.
When I don't have music or podcasts playing, I feel like I can appreciate those sights a bit more. Picking up on snippets of other people's lives is interesting, and I find my mood is easier regulated when I just ground myself in the world around me rather than disappearing up into my head with the podcast or music playing. If I have sound on that I focus on, I'll often not really remember my walking to and from work, but if I'm just experiencing the world, I'll usually find something memorable. I find that slowing down and taking the time away from tech has been nice for me, sometimes.