Includes bibliographical references (p. [1137]-1146).
Contents:
Forest beloved / From "The natural history and antiquities of Selborne" / Janisse Ray. From "Letters from an American farmer" ; from "Sketches of eighteenth century America" / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur -- From "Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida" / William Bartram -- From "American ornithology; or, the natural history of the birds of the United States" / Alexander Wilson -- From "The journal of a naturalist" / John Leonard Knapp -- From "David Thompson's Narrative of his explorations in Western America, 1784-1812" / David Thompson -- From "Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth" / Dorothy Wordsworth -- From "The Journals of Lewis and Clark" / Meriwether Lewis -- From "Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles" / Charles Waterton -- From "Ornithological biography" / John James Audubon -- From "The natural world" ; from "The natural history prose writings of John Clare" / John Clare -- From "Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians" / George Catlin -- From "Nature "; from "The journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- From "Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle"; from "On the origin of species by means of natural selection "; from "The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex:"/ Charles Darwin -- From "Rural hours" / Susan Fenimore Cooper -- From "A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers" ; From "Walden : or, life in the woods" ; "Walking" ; from "The Maine woods" ; from "Journals" / Henry David Thoreau -- From "Glaucus; or, the wonders of the shore" / Charles Kingsley -- From "Specimen days and collect" / Walt Whitman -- From "Exploration of the Colorado River of the west and its tributaries" / John Wesley Powell -- From "Life on the Mississippi" / Samuel Clemens -- From "An island garden" / Celia Thaxter -- "In Mammoth Cave" / John Burroughs -- "Wind-storm in the forests" ; Water-ouzel" / John Muir -- "My friend the pig" ; from "Idle days in Patagonia" / W.H. Hudson -- From "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" / Clarence King -- From "Notebooks and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins" / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- "Out of doors in February" ; "Absence of design in nature" / Richard Jefferies -- Story of a garden / Mabel Osgood Wright -- From "Wild animals I have known" / Ernest Thompson Seton -- From "Moths of the limberlost / Gene Stratton Porter -- From "The land of little rain" / Mary Austin -- Nature / Luther Standing Bear -- Hampshire ; End of summer / Edward Thomas -- From "N by E" / Rockwell Kent -- "Death of the moth" / Virginia Woolf -- From "Out of Africa" / Isak Dinesen -- "Flowery Tuscany" / D.H. Lawrence -- Unknown eros ; Wave and cliff / E.L. Grant Watson -- From "The outermost house : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod" / Henry Beston -- From "A Sand County almanac" / Aldo Leopold -- "Love in the desert" / Joseph Wood Krutch -- From "Tarka the otter" / Henry Williamson -- From "An almanac for moderns" / Donald Culross Peattie -- Butterflies / Vladimir Nabokov -- "Northern lights" / Sigurd Olson -- Lost woods / Edwin Way Teale -- "Slight sound at evening" / E.B. White -- "Ancient people and the newly come" / Meridel LeSueur -- Family of landscapes / Rene Dubos -- From "A river runs through it" / Norman Maclean -- From "The log from the sea of Cortez" / John Steinbeck -- From "The heart of the hunter" / Laurens Van Der Post -- "Snakes are about" / T.H. White -- "Marginal world / Rachel Carson -- "Judgment of the birds" / Loren Eiseley -- From "Black boy" / Richard Wright -- Lively Petes of Parque Vargas / Archie Carr -- "Glen Canyon Submersus" ; "Coda : wilderness letter" / Wallace Stegner -- From "A land" / Jacquetta Hawkes -- From "The inland island" / Jospehine Johnson -- "Death in the open" ; World's biggest membrane" / Lewis Thomas -- Common night ; Dovekie and the ocean sunfish / John Hay -- Rain and the rhinoceros" / Thomas Merton -- Mouse / Faith McNulty -- "From "Never cry wolf" / Farley Mowat -- "Moments and journeys" / John Haines -- Silver Snaffles / Maxine Kumin -- Of red tailed hawks and black tailed gnatcatchers / Ann Haymond Zwinger -- Beginnings / J.A. Baker -- From "The tree" / John Fowles -- Island of Auks / Franklin Russell -- Serpents of paradise ; Great American desert" / Edward Abbey -- From "The tree where man was born"; from "The wind birds" / Peter Matthiessen -- "Pig tales / Noel Perrin -- "Very warm mountain" / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Bird of paradise / Edward O. Wilson -- Ancient forests of the far west / Gary Snyder -- "Under the snow" / John McPhee -- "Hailing the elusory mountain lion" ; "Thoughts on returning to the city after five months on a mountain where the wolves howled" / Edward Hoagland -- Owning it all / William Kittredge -- "Entrance to the woods" ; Making of a marginal farm / Wendell Berry -- "Way to Rainy Mountain" / N. Scott Momaday -- From "A country year" / Sue Hubbell -- Timescape with signpost / Tim Robinson -- "Silence" / Chet Raymo -- Beginner's mind / Jim Harrison -- In salmon's water / Freeman House -- Under old Nell's skirt ; Atop the mound / William Least Heat-Mppn -- From "The songlines" / Bruce Chatwin -- City person encountering nature / Maxine Hong Kingston -- From "Living at the end of time" / John Hanson Mitchell -- "Gifts" / Richard K. Nelson -- Circle is the way to see/ Joseph Bruchac -- Of moose and a moose hunter / Franklin Burroughs -- Big snow / Doug Peacock -- "Death of a hornet" / Robert Finch -- Nighthawks fly in thunderstorms / Linds Hasselstrom -- Moose / Trudy Dittmar -- Am I blue? / Alice Walker -- Heaven and earth in jest ; Living like weasels ; Total eclipse / Annie Dillard -- Cutover / Jan Zita Grover -- From "Arctic dreams"; "The raven" / Barry Lopez -- Buckeye / Scott Russell Sanders -- Human element / David Rains Wallace -- Wolf, eagle, bear : an Alaska notebook / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Friends, foes, and working animals / Gretel Ehrlich -- Flora and fauna of Las Vegas / Ellen Meloy -- Zip-a-dee-do-dah / Emily Hiestand -- Bats / Linda Hogan -- And the coyotes will lift a leg / Robert Michael Pyle -- Why leaves turn color in the fall / Diane Ackerman -- Word in favor of rootlessness / John Daniel -- Strawberries under ice / David Quammen -- Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Alien soul / Jamaica Kincaid -- Northwest passage / David James Duncan -- Third eye of the lizard / Ray Gonzalez -- Calling animals by name" / Vicki Hearne -- From "The desert smells like rain : a naturalist in Papago Indian country" / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Big grass / Louise Erdrich -- Planting seeds / David Mas Masumoto -- Gila wilderness / Sharman Apt Russell -- Black women and the wilderness / Evelyn White -- High tide in Tucson / Barbara Kingsolver -- Weeds are us / Michael Pollan -- Clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams.-- Baldwins / Jane Brox -- Ecology of magic / David Abram -- From "The ninemile wolves" / Rick Bass -- From "The end of nature / Bill McKibben -- Built by fire ; Forest beloved / Janisse Ray.
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