At Home on This Earth : Two Centuries of U. S. Women's Nature Writing Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Great Chorus of Woman and Nature	1
	Chapters 5 and 16 from Forest Life	13
	The Prairies of Illinois	20
	Picknicking up Julington	28
	Otsego Leaves I: Birds Then and Now	34
	Into the Woods	41
	Camping in Colorado	54
	In the Cottonwoods	58
	Selections from An Island Garden	65
	Journal Excepts, 1854-1863	72
	A Winter Drive	81
	Nature and the Native	91
	Grass: A Rumination	94
	The Solitary Bee	98
	Trees at Leisure	101
	A Little Nomad	107
	Feathered Philosophers	110
	Nature's Calm	117
	The Last Passenger Pigeon	123
	Selections from Birds Through an Opera Glass	133
	The Land of Little Rain	145
	The Walking Woman	149
	Chapter 31 from Edge of Taos Desert	156
	Birds Across the Sky	169
	The Grass	179
	The Night It Rained	183
	The Magnolia Tree	188
	The Weasel	196
	The Wilderness Code	199
	The Ancient People and the Newly Come	204
	The Shape of Ancient Seas	215
	June	223
	Winter River	229
	Getting into the Register	237
	The Lake Rock	242
	She Unnames Them	245
	Rock Garden	248
	Selections from A Country Year	255
	How the Corn-Mother Became a Teacher of Wisdom	261
	Selu Sings for Survival	265
	Sauntering Around Lilypad Lake	270
	Selections from Woman and Nature	278
	Rock Lover	284
	My Heart Has Reopened to You	292
	Seeing	295
	Landscape	303
	Pajaritos	309
	Dwellings	316
	Phantom Limb	322
	Fifth World: The Return of Ma ah shra true ee, the Giant Serpent	334
	Crossing Bitter Creek: Meditations on the Colorado River	341
	Killing Our Elders	347
	In the Green Room	352
	Touching the Earth	360
	Gila Wilderness	365
	Big Grass	375
	Dancing: A Grand Canyon Saga	380
	Winter Solstice at the Moab Slough	383
	A Blizzard Under Blue Sky	386
	Climbing to the Top	391
	Bibliography and Further Reading	395
	Index of Authors and Titles	403