Part one: Fires, floods, and following the Dao; Ark of the Sierra; Migration/immigration, wandering South and North, erasing borders, coming to live on Turtle Island; Ecology, literature, and the New World disorder, gathered on Okinawa; Thinking toward the thousand-year forest plan; Mountain spirit's true [no] nature; Path to Matsuyama; Writers and the war against nature; Entering the fiftieth millennium; Lifetimes with fire
Part two: With wild surmise; Sustainability means winning hearts and minds; "Can poetry change the world?"; Three way tavern; Will of wild wild women; Coyote makes things hard; Shell game; "Way of poisons"; Regarding "Smokey the Bear sutra"; On the problems lurking in the phrase "before the wilderness"; Allen Ginsberg crosses over; Highest and driest; Afterword to a new edition of Riprap; Cottonwoods; Harriet Callicotte's stone in Kansas; Empty shells; Grown in America.
