Forests: The Shadow of Civilization Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	First the Forests	1
	Vico's Giants	3
	The Demon of Gilgamesh	13
	The Virgin Goddess	19
	Dionysos	30
	The Sorrows of Rhea Silvia	46
	From Mythic Origins to Deforestation	52
2	Shadows of Law	61
	The Knight's Adventure	65
	Forest Law	69
	Outlaws	75
	Dante's Line of Error	81
	Shadows of Love	87
	The Human Age	91
	Macbeth's Conclusion	100
3	Enlightenment	107
	The Ways of Method	108
	What is Enlightenment? A Question for Foresters	114
	Rousseau	125
	Conrad's Brooding Gloom	133
	Roquentin's Nightmare	144
	Wastelands	148
4	Forests of Nostalgia	155
	Forest and World in Wordsworth's Poem	156
	The Brothers Grimm	164
	Forests of Symbols	177
	Waiting for Dionysos	186
5	Dwelling	197
	The Elm Tree	202
	London Versus Epping Forest	211
	The Woods of Walden	220
	Fallingwater	232
	Andrea Zanzotto	238
	Epilogue: The Ecology of Finitude	245
	Notes and Bibliography	251
	Works Cited	267
	Index	277
	Illustration Credits	288