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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since ThoreauEdited by Bill McKibben • Foreword by Al Gore
"American Earth can be read as a survey of the literature of American environmentalism, but above all, it should be enjoyed for the sheer beauty of the writing."
— Publishers Weekly(starred review) "Unique, much-needed . . . If you choose but one environmental book this season, make it American Earth." — Booklist(starred review) Al Gore
Foreword
Bill McKibben
Introduction
Henry David Thoreau
from Journals
from Walden; or, Life in the Woods
from Huckleberries
George Catlin
from Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Fallen Forests
Susan Fenimore Cooper
from Rural Hours
Table Rock Album
Walt Whitman
from Leaves of Grass
George Perkins Marsh
from Man and Nature
P. T. Barnum
from The Humbugs of the World
John Muir
from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
A Wind-Storm in the Forests
from My First Summer in the Sierra
Hetch Hetchy Valley
W.H.H. Murray
from Adventures in the Wilderness
Frederick Law Olmsted
from A Review of Recent Changes, and Changes Which Have Been Projected, in the Plans
of the Central Park
J. Sterling Morton
About Trees
Theodore Roosevelt
To Frank Michler Chapman
To John Burroughs
Speech at Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 6, 1903
Mary Austin
The Scavengers
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
from Man and the Earth
John Burroughs
The Art of Seeing Things
The Grist of the Gods
Nature Near Home
Gifford Pinchot
Prosperity
William T. Hornaday
The Bird Tragedy on Laysan Island
Theodore Dreiser
A Certain Oil Refinery
Gene Stratton-Porter
The Last Passenger Pigeon
Henry Beston
Orion Rises on the Dunes
Benton MacKaye
The Indigenous and the Metropolitan
J. N. “Ding” Darling
“What a few more seasons will do to the ducks”
Robert Marshall
from Wintertrip into New Country
Don Marquis
what the ants are saying
Caroline Henderson
Letter from the Dust Bowl
Donald Culross Peattie
Birds That Are New Yorkers
Robinson Jeffers
The Answer
Carmel Point
John Steinbeck
from The Grapes of Wrath
Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
from The Everglades: River of Grass
Aldo Leopold
from A Sand County Almanac
Berton Roueché
The Fog
Edwin Way Teale
The Longest Day
Helen and Scott Nearing
from Living the Good Life
Sigurd F. Olson
Northern Lights
E. B. White
Sootfall and Fallout
Loren Eiseley
How Flowers Changed the World
William O. Douglas
from My Wilderness: The Pacific West
Dissent in Sierra Club v. Morton
Jane Jacobs
from The Death and Life of Great America Cities
Rachel Carson
from Silent Spring
Russell Baker
The Great Paver
Eliot Porter
The Living Canyon
Howard Zahniser
from The Wilderness Act of 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson
Remarks at the Signing of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965
Kenneth E. Boulding
from The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth
Lynn White Jr.
On the Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis
Edward Abbey
Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks
Paul R. Ehrlich
from The Population Bomb
Garrett Hardin
from The Tragedy of the Commons
Philip K. Dick
from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Colin Fletcher
A Sample Day in the Kitchen
R. Buckminster Fuller
Spaceship Earth
Stephanie Mills
Mills College Valedictory Address
Gary Snyder
Smokey the Bear Sutra
Covers the Ground
Denis Hayes
The Beginning
Joseph Lelyveld
Millions Join Earth Day Observances Across the Nation
Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi
Marvin Gaye
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
John McPhee
from Encounters with the Archdruid
Friends of the Earth
from Only One Earth
Wendell Berry
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
The Making of a Marginal Farm
Preserving Wildness
Annie Dillard
Fecundity
Lewis Thomas
The World’s Biggest Membrane
David R. Brower
The Third Planet: Operating Instructions
Amory B. Lovins
from Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?
N. Scott Momaday
A First American Views His Land
Leslie Marmon Silko
from Ceremony
R. Crumb
A Short History of America
Wes Jackson
Outside the Solar Village: One Utopian Farm
Lois Marie Gibbs
from Love Canal: My Story
Jonathan Schell
from The Fate of the Earth
William Cronon
Seasons of Want and Plenty
Alice Walker
Everything Is a Human Being
E. O. Wilson
Bernhardsdorp
César Chávez
Wrath of Grapes Boycott Speech
Barry Lopez
A Presentation of Whales
W. S. Merwin
Place
Bill McKibben
from The End of Nature
Robert D. Bullard
from Dumping in Dixie
Mary Oliver
The Summer Day
Terry Tempest Williams
from Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Rick Bass
from The Ninemile Wolves
Alan Durning
The Dubious Rewards of Consumption
Scott Russell Sanders
After the Flood
George B. Schaller
from The Last Panda
Ellen Meloy
The Flora and Fauna of Las Vegas
Linda Hogan
Dwellings
David Abram
from The Ecology of Magic
Jack Turner
The Song of the White Pelican
Carl Anthony & Renée Soule
A Multicultural Approach to Ecopsychology
Al Gore
Speech at the Kyoto Climate Change Conference
Richard Nelson
from Heart and Blood:
Living with Deer in America
David Quammen
Planet of Weeds
Janisse Ray
from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Julia Butterfly Hill
from The Legacy of Luna
Calvin B. DeWitt
from Inspirations for Sustaining Life on Earth
Sandra Steingraber
from Having Faith
Barbara Kingsolver
Knowing Our Place
Michael Pollan
from The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Paul Hawken
from Blessed Unrest
Rebecca Solnit
The Thoreau Problem
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