Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Launching Out -- Ch. 1 Seed Plots -- Ch. 2 Written on the Hills -- Ch. 3 The Middle Border -- Ch. 4 Interpreting Pharaoh's Dream -- Ch. 5 An American System -- Ch. 6 A Common Concept of Land -- Ch. 7 Ecological Poetry -- Ch. 8 The Germ and the Juggernaut -- Ch. 9 Wildlife and the New Man -- Ch. 10 Knowing Nature -- Ch. 11 A New Kind of Conservation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources of Illustrations and Excerpts -- Index.