From the Book - First edition.
Prologue from Woman and nature / Susan Griffin --
The joy-song of nature / Opal Whiteley --
Breaklight / Lucille Clifton --
A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett --
Being still / Margaret Hasse --
Home to the wilderness / Sally Carrighar --
The magnolia tree / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings --
A breeze swept through / Luci Tapahonso --
The many and the one / Barbara Dean --
I will lie down / May Swenson --
Rolling naked in the morning dew / Pattiann Rogers --
A rinse in the river / Ann Zwinger --
The magic of the flats / Clare Leighton --
Christmas in Driftwood Valley / Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher --
Visual opium / Diane Ackerman --
Why? / Emily Dickinson --
Afternoon in the woods / Susan Fenimore Cooper --
Childhood on White Island / Celia Laighton Thaxter --
Green thoughts in a green shade / Katharine S. White --
A bouquet of wild flowers / Laura Ingalls Wilder --
On the hills / Elizabeth Coatsworth --
In nameless places / Hannah Hinchman --
The streets of the mountains / Mary Austin --
Trek to Blue Lake / Mabel Dodge Luhan --
The song of the Limberlost / Gene Stratton-Porter --
Love poem / Leslie Marmon Silko --
Why do you keep those cats? / Judith Minty --
Living like weasels / Annie Dillard --
The recognition / Roberta Hill Whiteman --
River history / Gretel Ehrlich --
Annunciation / Meridel Le Sueur --
Night song / Martha Reben --
Becoming feral / Sue Hubbell --
The safety behind me / Rebecca Gonzales --
The feel of the outdoors / Edna Brush Perkins --
The lure of the desert / Idah Meacham Strobridge --
In a valley of peace / Ella Higginson --
Running Lava Falls / China Galland --
The old one and the wind / Clarice Short --
My help is in the mountain ; Earth cure me / Nancy Wood --
The ancient people / Willa Cather --
The back-road / Abbie Huston Evans --
Journal entries / Edith Warner --
Longing / Ina Coolbirth --
The bowl / Terry Tempest Williams --
Lesson 1 ; Lesson 2 / Pat Mora --
The glade / Jean Liedloff --
Meadow turf / Janet Lewis --
The miracle of renewal --
On a winter morning / Josephine Johnson --
Depression in winter / Jane Kenyon --
Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov --
Why did the Balinese chicken cross the road? / Alice Walker --
Life with a wolf pack / Lois Crisler --
Wildlife in the home / Margaret Murie --
The fawn / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
To build a dam / Hope Ryden --
Two creatures of the long-shadowed forest / Helen Hoover --
Turning the garden in middle age / Maxine Kumin --
A little nomad / Anna Botsford Comstock --
Drama on a wooden fence / Mary Leister --
Dance of giants / Diana Kappel-Smith --
Changing / Barbara Meyn --
Among my closest friends / Anne LaBastille --
The old cherry tree / Hildegard Flanner --
Iceberg / Katharine Scherman --
The man / Judith McCombs --
The last antelope / Mary Austin --
The hunt ; Use / Susan Griffin --
Love canal / Janice Mirikitani --
Earth's green mantle / Rachel Carson --
Bitter root rituals / Barbara Mor --
Homesick / Marge Piercy --
The Alegria canyon ; Afterword to The ranch papers / Jane Hollister Wheelwright --
Contradictions : tracking poems, part 18 / Adrienne Rich --
Spirit of love / Barbara Deming --
Turning to another way / Elizabeth Dodson Gray --
Dynamics / Nancy Newhall --
The rainbow bridge / Brooke Medicine Eagle --
Kopis'taya (a gathering of spirits) / Paula Gunn Allen --
A woman's dance / Terry Tempest Williams --
The common living dirt / Marge Piercy --
Native origin / Beth Brant --
Waking up at the rake / Linda Hogan --
End of the beginning / Dorothy Richards with Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci --
Mind in the waters / Joan McIntyre --
May's lion / Ursula Le Guin --
Demeter / Genevieve Taggard.
