Table of Contents
2008 Summer
Book of Nature
Introductory
Voices in Time
Howling Wilderness
- Charles Bowden's Trail of Tears: 2006 / Sonoran Desert
- Forests of the Night: 1794 / London
- Systems of Being: 1764 / Königsberg
- Douglas Mawson Looks into the Abyss: 1913 / Antarctica
- Achilles Wages the War Against Nature: c. 1250 BC / Troy
- A Hideous and Desolate Wilderness: 1620 / Cape Cod
- The Shoulders of Orion: 1928 / Cape Cod
- Point of Order: 1933 / South Dakota
- Speaking the Same Language: c. 1797 / Saxony
- More Heaven Than Earth: c. 1670 / Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Air Pollution: 79 / Pompeii
- Free Range: 1964 / Washington, D.C.
- Edward Abbey Wrings Water from a Stone: 1968 / Utah
- John Muir Defies the Foul Fiend: 1912 / Yosemite
- Reflection on a Still Pool: c. 1684 / Japan
- Survival of the Fittest: c. 1846 / Walden Pond
- In the Sky with Diamonds: 1765 / St. Peter's Isle
- Death Is Not Evil: 1947 / Carmel
- Jack London Reports from Ground Zero: 1906 / San Francisco
- Chris Rose Visits a Crime Scene: 2005 / New Orleans
- Michel de Montaigne Ennobles the Savage: c. 1579 / Brazil
- Heavy Silk: c. 750 / China
- Circle of Life: 1924 / New York City
- Dancing Trees: 1663 / New France
- The Road Less Traveled: c. 1321 / Italy
- Earth's Eye: 1999 / Vermont
- The Wild Child: 1726 / London
- Natural Resources: c. 1891 / Polynesia
- Beowulf Slays Leviathan: c. 600 / Finland
- The End of History: 1893 / Chicago
- The Hills Are Alive: c. 300 BC / Greece
- William Wordsworth Sees into the Life of Things: 1798 / Tintern Abbey
Gardens of Earthly Delight
- Paradise Regained: 2008 / Dubai
- As It Was in the Beginning: c. 4000 BC / Eden
- Virgin Soil: 1519 / Vera Cruz
- Utopia: 1625 / London
- Cicero Places the Universe at the Disposal of Mankind: 45 BC / Rome
- Natural Flavor: 2001 / New Jersey
- Rachel Carson Observes a Chain Reaction: 1962 / Maryland
- Ovid Recalls a Golden Age: c. 532 BC / Croton
- John Berger Deconstructs a Zoo: 1977 / France
- Animal Farm: 1938 / Berlin
- Natural Selection: 1486 / Rome
- All Things Are Moral: 1836 / Concord
- Against Nature: 1927 / Vienna
- Cultivation and Its Discontents: 1878 / Rome
- This Land Is Your Land: 1949 / Wisconsin
- Parade Music: 1865 / Brooklyn
- Nature's Fruitful Progenies: 1590 / London
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Stages a Puppet Show: c. 1600 / Salem
- Michael Pollan Plants a Potato: 2001 / Housatonic Valley
- Self-Sacrifice: c. 1900 / The Maritimes
- Manifest Destiny: c. 1628 / England
- Thomas Jefferson Asks for Particulars: 1803 / Washington D.C.
- Out of Nature: 1927 / Byzantium
- Natural Right: c. 1700 / Anhui
- Another Shade of Blue: 1988 / Antigua
- To Be or Not To Be: 1772 / Paris
- The Unpruned Vine: 1415 / Harfleur
- Divine Symmetry: 15 BC / Rome
- Dust Bowl: c. 1930 / Oklahoma
- Notes from the Edge: 1903 / Grand Canyon
- Curtis White Sounds an Alarm: 2007 / Illinois
- Worship of Cats: c. 425 BC / Egypt
- Frederick Law Olmsted Defends His Park Against the Philistines: 1872 / New York City
- Wild Honey: c. 30 BC / Lombardy
- Jane Jacobs Imagines a City: 1961 / New York City
- Environmental Determinism: 1782 / New York
- E. B. White Delivers a Eulogy: 1948 / Maine
- Surfeit of Riches: 1690 / London
Terra Incognita
- Al Gore Reads the Omens: 2006 / Nashville
- Johann von Goethe in Love: 1783 / Weimar
- Man of Science: 1896 / Island of Dr. Moreau
- David Quammen Examines an Embryo: 2005 / Montana
- Taints of Majesty: c. 1861 / Amherst
- Metamorphoses: c. 440 BC / Greece
- Books of Nature: 77 / Rome
Alfred Russel Wallace Advances a Theory: 1858 / Paris - Food Chain: 1887 / London
- Mirror of Nature: c. 1170 / Cîteaux
- Spiral Staircase: 2003 / Long Island
- Intelligent Design: 1818 / Ingolstadt
- Microcosm: 1492 / Milan
- Blueprints: c. 1300 BC / India
- Annie Dillard on the Surface of Mystery: 1974 / Tinker Creek
- Dialectic: c. 500 BC / Ephesus
- The Savage Sea: 1851 / South Seas
- Great Chain of Being: 1734 / London
- The Procreant Void: 1969 / Philadelphia
- Way of Nature: c. 400 BC / China
- Time Travel: 1902 / Congo River
- Population Control: 1803 / Cambridge
- Andrew Jackson Removes the Indians: 1830 / Washington, D.C.
- No Direction Home: 1932 / Crow Nation
- State of Nature: 1866 / Atlantic Ocean
- Distance Inexpressible: 1667 / London
- A Shortage of Rational Conjectures: 1749 / Paris
- Tourist Destination: c. 1340 / Andaman Islands
- Holy Communion: 1845 / Berlin
- Cloud Animals: c. 990 / China
- Lucretius Splits the Atom: c. 58 BC / Rome
- E. O. Wilson Encounters Chaos: 1984 / Suriname
- Law of the Land: 1687 / Cambridge
- Lewis Thomas Revises the Book of Genesis: 1974 / New York City
- Limits of Science: 1965 / Ithaca
- Paradigm Shift: 1859 / Downe
Departments
Essays
- The Art of Nature: by Frederick Turner
- And Such Small Deer: by Garret Keizer
- Funhouse Goddess: by D. Graham Burnett
- Pattern Recognition: by Steven Stoll
Conversations
Letters
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