Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: BEYOND PRESERVATION -- Introduction: Ecological Preservation versus Restoration and Invention -- "Sunflower Forest": Ecological Restoration as the Basis for a New Environmental Paradigm -- The Invented Landscape -- PART II: THEORY -- Restoration or Preservation? Reflections on a Clash of Environmental Philosophies -- Humans Assert Sovereignty over Nature -- Landscape Restoration: More than Ritual and Gardening -- Changing Worldviews and Landscape Restoration -- PART III: PRACTICE -- Restoration Ecology: Lessons Yet to Be Learned -- Art and Insight in Remnant Native Ecosystems -- Natural Forest Management of Tropical Rain Forests: What Will Be the "Nature" of the Managed Forest? -- Identifying a Strategy for Forest Restoration in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya -- Remaking and Restoring the Landscape of Dare County, North Carolina -- Rehabilitation of Land Stripped for Coal in Ohio - Reclamation, Restoration, or Creation? -- PART IV: IMPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES -- Concrete Beasts/Plaster Gardens -- In the Beginning: Creation, Restoration, and Turner's Genesis -- The Little Hut on the Prairie: The Ritual Uses of Restoration -- The Poetics and Politics of Prairie Restoration -- Gardening with J. Crew: The Political Economy of Restoration Ecology -- PART V: RESPONSES -- Sunflower Seeds -- The Invented Landscape (Reprise) -- Conclusion: Constructing a New Ecological Paradigm -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.