City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Reversing the Tides	1
2	The Moss Rose	8
3	Where Have All the Animals Gone? The Lamentable Extinction of Zoos	13
4	Touching the Earth	28
5	Big City Waters	34
6	Bottles of Beaujolais	47
7	New Moon over Roxbury: Reflections on Urban Life and the Land	61
8	Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah	73
9	The Silence	80
10	A Paradise of Frogs	86
11	The Girl Who Raised Pigeons	89
12	Disturbing the Universe	109
13	Florida	114
14	Paddling off the Edge of the Big Easy	119
15	Swamp Boy	132
16	Conquistador	142
17	The Soul of Treaty Oak	154
18	The Monkey Garden	164
19	Chicago Waters	168
20	Some Experiences with Insects	174
21	Thank God It Snowed	182
22	Minnehaha Creek	186
23	Feral Lasers	195
24	The Fabulous Sinkhole	204
25	The Snake	225
26	Willow Game	237
27	Claiming the Yard	245
28	From Pieces of Light	250
29	The Extinction of Experience	257
30	The Dark Constable	268
31	Nature Near	278
32	The Moths	287
33	Opossums and Thieving Pelicans	293
34	The Cleveland Wrecking Yard	299
35	Plantswomen	305