Table of Contents
Introduction xxi
Henry David Thoreau
from Journals 2
from Walden; or, Life in the Woods 9
from Huckleberries 26
George Catlin
from Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs,
and Condition of the North American Indians 37
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Fallen Forests 46
Susan Fenimore Cooper
from Rural Hours 48
Table Rock Album 59
Walt Whitman
from Leaves of Grass
This Compost 62
Song of the Redwood-Tree 65
George Perkins Marsh
from Man and Nature 71
P. T. Barnum
from The Humbugs of the World 81
John Muir
from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf 85
A Wind-Storm in the Forests 89
from My First Summer in the Sierra 98
Hetch Hetchy Valley 104
W.H.H. Murray
from Adventures in the Wilderness 113
Frederick Law Olmsted
from A Review of Recent Changes, and Changes Which
Have Been Projected, in the Plans
of the Central Park 120
J. Sterling Morton
About Trees 126
Theodore Roosevelt
To Frank Michler Chapman 130
To John Burroughs 131
Speech at Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 6, 1903 132
Mary Austin
The Scavengers 134
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
from Man and the Earth 140
John Burroughs
The Art of Seeing Things 146
The Grist of the Gods 159
Nature Near Home 168
Gifford Pinchot
Prosperity 173
William T. Hornaday
The Bird Tragedy on Laysan Island 181
Theodore Dreiser
A Certain Oil Refinery 186
Gene Stratton-Porter
The Last Passenger Pigeon 192
Henry Beston
Orion Rises on the Dunes 205
Benton MacKaye
The Indigenous and the Metropolitan 209
J. N. “Ding”
Darling “What a few more seasons will do to the ducks” 224
Robert Marshall
from Wintertrip into New Country 225
Don Marquis
what the ants are saying 235
Caroline Henderson
Letter from the Dust Bowl 239
Donald Culross Peattie
Birds That Are New Yorkers 245
Robinson Jeffers
The Answer 251
Carmel Point 252
John Steinbeck
from The Grapes of Wrath 254
Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land 258
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
from The Everglades: River of Grass 260
Aldo Leopold
from A Sand County Almanac 266
Berton Roueché
The Fog 295
Edwin Way Teale
The Longest Day 313
Helen and Scott Nearing
from Living the Good Life 318
Sigurd F. Olson
Northern Lights 323
E. B. White
Sootfall and Fallout 327
Loren Eiseley
How Flowers Changed the World 337
William O. Douglas
from My Wilderness: The Pacific West 348
Dissent in Sierra Club v. Morton 355
Jane Jacobs
from The Death and Life of Great America Cities 359
Rachel Carson
from Silent Spring 366
Russell Baker
The Great Paver 377
Eliot Porter
The Living Canyon 380
Howard Zahniser
from The Wilderness Act of 1964 392
Lyndon B. Johnson
Remarks at the Signing of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 395
Kenneth E. Boulding
from The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth 399
Lynn White Jr.
On the Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis 405
Edward Abbey
Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks 413
Paul R. Ehrlich
from The Population Bomb 434
Garrett Hardin
from The Tragedy of the Commons 438
Philip K. Dickfrom
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 451
Colin Fletcher
A Sample Day in the Kitchen 454
R. Buckminster
Fuller Spaceship Earth 464
Stephanie Mills
Mills College Valedictory Address 469
Gary Snyder
Smokey the Bear Sutra 473
Covers the Ground 477
Denis Hayes
The Beginning 480
Joseph Lelyveld
Millions Join Earth Day Observances Across the Nation 484
Joni Mitchell & Marvin Gaye
Big Yellow Taxi 490
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) 491
John McPhee
from Encounters with the Archdruid 493
Friends of the Earth
from Only One Earth 500
Wendell Berry
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front 505
The Making of a Marginal Farm 507
Preserving Wildness 516
Annie Dillard
Fecundity 531
Lewis Thomas
The World’s Biggest Membrane 550
David R. Brower
The Third Planet: Operating Instructions 555
Amory B. Lovins
from Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken? 559
N. Scott Momaday
A First American Views His Land 570
Leslie Marmon Silko
from Ceremony 582
R. Crumb
A Short History of America 591
Wes Jackson
Outside the Solar Village: One Utopian Farm 595
Lois Marie Gibbs
from Love Canal: My Story 609
Jonathan Schell
from The Fate of the Earth 622
William Cronon
Seasons of Want and Plenty 632
Alice Walker
Everything Is a Human Being 659
E. O. Wilson
Bernhardsdorp 671
César Chávez
Wrath of Grapes Boycott Speech 690
Barry Lopez
A Presentation of Whales 696
W. S. Merwin
Place 716
Bill McKibben
from The End of Nature 718
Robert D. Bullard
from Dumping in Dixie 725
Mary Oliver
The Summer Day 737
Terry Tempest Williams
from Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 739
Rick Bass
from The Ninemile Wolves 760
Alan Durning
The Dubious Rewards of Consumption 770
Scott Russell Sanders
After the Flood 781
George B. Schaller
from The Last Panda 790
Ellen Meloy
The Flora and Fauna of Las Vegas 793
Linda Hogan
Dwellings 809
David Abram
from The Ecology of Magic 815
Jack Turner
The Song of the White Pelican 835
Carl Anthony & Renée Soule
A Multicultural Approach to Ecopsychology 849
Al Gore
Speech at the Kyoto Climate Change Conference 855
Richard Nelson
from Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America 860
David Quammen
Planet of Weeds 874
Janisse Ray
from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood 898
Julia Butterfly Hill
from The Legacy of Luna 907
Calvin B. DeWitt
from Inspirations for Sustaining Life on Earth 920
Greeting Friends in Their Andean Gardens
Sandra Steingraber
from Having Faith 929
Barbara Kingsolver
Knowing Our Place 939
Michael Pollan
from The Omnivore’s Dilemma 948
Paul Hawken
from Blessed Unrest 961
Rebecca Solnit
The Thoreau Problem 971
Chronology 997
Note on the Illustrations 1005
Sources and Acknowledgments 1015
Index 1025