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Contents Preface xi Part 1. Caring for Earth 1 Building Arks 3 Common Wealth 23 A Few Earthy Words 43 Two Stones 59 The Warehouse and the Wilderness 69 Part 2. Caring for Home Ground 89 The Geography of Somewhere 91 Hometown 107 On Loan from the Sundance Sea 117 Big Trees, Still Water, Tall Grass 127 Limberlost 143 Part 3. Caring for Generations to Come 155 Wilderness as a Sabbath for the Land 157 Simplicity and Sanity 169 Stillness 193 A Conservationist Manifesto 209 For the Children 221 Words of Thanks 229 Notes 231 Further Reading 237 ...

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