Foreword / by Al Gore

Introduction

from Journals ; from Walden; or, Life in the woods ; from Huckleberries / Henry David Thoreau

from Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians / George Catlin

Fallen forests / Lydia Huntley Sigourney

from Rural hours / Susan Fenimore Cooper

Table rock album

from Leaves of grass ; This compost ; Song of the redwood tree / Walt Whitman

from Man and nature / George Perkins Marsh

from The humbugs of the world / P.T. Barnum

from A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf ; A wind-storm in the forests ; from My first summer in the Sierra ; Hetch Hetchy Valley / John Muir

from Adventures in the wilderness / W.H.H. Murray

from A review of recent changes, and changes which have been projected, in the plans of the Central Park / Frederick Law Olmsted

About trees / J. Sterling Morton

To Frank Michler Chapman ; To John Burroughs ; Speech at Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 6, 1903 / Theodore Roosevelt

The scavengers / Mary Austin

from Man and the earth / Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

The art of seeing things ; The grist of the gods ; Nature near home / John Burroughs

Prosperity / Gifford Pinchot.

The bird tragedy on Laysan Island / William T. Hornaday

A certain oil refinery / Theodore Dreiser

The last passenger pigeon / Gene Stratton-Porter

Orion rises on the dunes / Henry Beston

The indigenous and the metropolitan / Benton MacKaye

What a few more seasons will do to the ducks / J.N. "Ding" Darling

from Wintertrip into New Country / Robert Marshall

What the ants are saying / Don Marquis

Letter from the Dust Bowl / Caroline Henderson

Birds that are New Yorkers / Donald Culross Peattie

The answer ; Carmle Point / Robinson Jeffers

from The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck

This land is your land / Woody Guthrie

from The Everglades: river of grass / Marjory Stoneman Douglas

from A Sand County almanac / Aldo Leopold

The fog / Berton Roueché

The longest day / Edwin Way Teale

from Living the good life / Helen and Scott Nearing

Northern lights / Sigurd F. Olson

Sootfall and fallout / E.B. White

How flowers changed the world / Loren Eiseley

from My wilderness: the Pacific West ; Dissent in Sierra Club v. Morton / William O. Douglas

from The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs

from Silent spring / Rachel Carson.

The great paver / Russell Baker

The living canyon / Eliot Porter

from The Wilderness Act of 1964 / Howard Zahniser

Remarks at the signing of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 / Lyndon B. Johnson

from The economics of the coming spaceship earth / Kenneth E. Boulding

On the historical roots of our ecologic crisis / Lynn White Jr.

Polemic: industrial tourism and the national parks / Edward Abbey

from The population bomb / Paul R. Ehrlich

from The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin

from Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick

A sample day in the kitchen / Colin Fletcher

Spaceship Earth / R. Buckminster Fuller

Mills College valedictory address / Stephanie Mills

Smokey the Bear sutra ; Covers the ground / Gary Snyder

The beginning / Denis Hayes

Millions join Earth Day observances across the nation / Joseph Lelyveld

Big yellow taxi ; Mercy mercy me (the ecology) / Joni Mitchell & Marvin Gaye

from Encounters with the archdruid / John McPhee

from Only one earth / Friends of the Earth

Manifesto: the Mad Farmer Liberation Front ; The making of a marginal farm ; Preserving wilderness / Wendell Berry

Fecundity / Annie Dillard.

The world's biggest membrane / Lewis Thomas

The third planet: operating instructions / David R. Brower

from Energy strategy: the road not taken? / Amory B. Lovins

A first American views his land / N. Scott Momaday

from Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko

A short history of America / R. Crumb

Outside the solar village: one utopian farm / Wes Jackson

from Love canal: my story / Lois Marie Gibbs

from The fate of the earth / Jonathan Schell

Seasons of want and plenty / William Cronon

Everything is a human being / Alice Walker

Bernhardsdorp / E. O. Wilson

Grapes of wrath boycott speech / César Chávez

A presentation of whales / Barry Lopez

Place / W. S. Merwin

from The end of nature / Bill McKibben

from Dumping in Dixie / Robert D. Bullard

The summer day / Mary Oliver

from Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place / Terry Tempest Williams

from The ninemile wolves / Rick Bass

The dubious rewards of consumption / Alan Durning

After the flood / Scott Russell Sanders

from The last panda / George B. Schaller

The flora and fauna of Las Vegas / Ellen Meloy.

Dwellings / Linda Hogan

from The ecology of magic / David Abram

The song of the white pelican / Jack Turner

A multicultural approach to ecopsychology / Carl Anthony & Renée Soule

Speech at the Kyoto Climate Change Conference / Al Gore

from Heart and blood: living with deer in America / Richard Nelson

Planet of weeds / David Quammen

from Ecology of a cracker childhood / Janisse Ray

from The legacy of Luna / Julia Butterfly Hill

from Inspirations for sustaining life on Earth: greeting friends in their Andean gardens / Calvin B. DeWitt

from Having faith / Sandra Steingraber

Knowing our place / Barbara Kingsolver

from The omnivore's dilemma / Michael Pollan

from Blessed Unrest / Paul Hawken

The Thoreau problem / Rebecca Solnit

Chronology

Note on the illustrations

Sources and acknowledgments

Index.