Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Homero Aridjis, The Rights of Nature -- Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams, Taking the Globe to Our Bosom -- Introduction -- Imagination into Principle -- Crafting Principles for the Earth Charter -- The Earth Charter -- Principle into Imagination: Literary Responses to the Earth Charter -- Owning the Imperatives: A Poem for the Earth Charter -- Learning to See the Stars: The Earth Charter as a Compass for the New Century -- Remembering the Ancient Path: The Original Instructions and the Earth Charter -- Lake Conestee -- Restoration: A Plan -- Wilderness as a Sabbath for the Land -- Who -- Broad Water, Distant Land -- Possibility Begins Here -- Hope for Democracy -- Imagination and Principle into a New Ethic -- The Ethic of Care -- Afterword -- Contributors.