American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau Book

Contents Foreword, by Al Gore....................xvii
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 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 NearHome....................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....................958
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. Dick from 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 Gage 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: Greeting Friends in Their Andean Gardens....................920
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