| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| from Journals | p. 2 |
| from Walden; or, Life in the Woods | p. 9 |
| from Huckleberries | p. 26 |
| from Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians | p. 37 |
| Fallen Forests | p. 46 |
| from Rural Hours | p. 48 |
| Table Rock Album | p. 59 |
| from Leaves of Grass: This Compost | p. 62 |
| Song of the Redwood-Tree | p. 65 |
| from Man and Nature | p. 71 |
| from The Humbugs of the World | p. 81 |
| from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf | p. 85 |
| A Wind-Storm in the Forests | p. 89 |
| from My First Summer in the Sierra | p. 98 |
| Hetch Hetchy Valley | p. 104 |
| from Adventures in the Wilderness | p. 113 |
| from A Review of Recent Changes, and Changes Which Have Been Projected, in the Plans of the Central Park | p. 120 |
| About Trees | p. 126 |
| To Frank Michler Chapman | p. 130 |
| To John Burroughs | p. 131 |
| Speech at Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 6, 1903 | p. 132 |
| The Scavengers | p. 134 |
| from Man and the Earth | p. 140 |
| The Art of Seeing Things | p. 146 |
| The Grist of the Gods | p. 159 |
| Nature Near Home | p. 168 |
| Prosperity | p. 173 |
| The Bird Tragedy on Laysan Island | p. 181 |
| A Certain Oil Refinery | p. 186 |
| The Last Passenger Pigeon | p. 192 |
| Orion Rises on the Dunes | p. 205 |
| The Indigenous and the Metropolitan | p. 209 |
| "What a few more seasons will do to the ducks" | p. 224 |
| from Wintertrip into New Country | p. 225 |
| what the ants are saying | p. 235 |
| Letter from the Dust Bowl | p. 239 |
| Birds That Are New Yorkers | p. 245 |
| The Answer | p. 251 |
| Carmel Point | p. 252 |
| from The Grapes of Wrath | p. 254 |
| This Land Is Your Land | p. 258 |
| from The Everglades: River of Grass | p. 260 |
| from A Sand County Almanac | p. 266 |
| The Fog | p. 295 |
| The Longest Day | p. 313 |
| from Living the Good Life | p. 318 |
| Northern Lights | p. 323 |
| Sootfall and Fallout | p. 327 |
| How Flowers Changed the World | p. 337 |
| from My Wilderness: The Pacific West | p. 348 |
| Dissentin Sierra Club v. Morton | p. 355 |
| from The Death and Life of Great America Cities | p. 359 |
| from Silent Spring | p. 366 |
| The Great Paver | p. 377 |
| The Living Canyon | p. 380 |
| from The Wilderness Act of 1964 | p. 392 |
| Remarks at the Signing of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 | p. 395 |
| from The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth | p. 399 |
| On the Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis | p. 405 |
| Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks | p. 413 |
| from The Population Bomb | p. 434 |
| from The Tragedy of the Commons | p. 438 |
| from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | p. 451 |
| A Sample Day in the Kitchen | p. 454 |
| Spaceship Earth | p. 464 |
| Mills College Valedictory Address | p. 469 |
| Smokey the Bear Sutra | p. 473 |
| Covers the Ground | p. 477 |
| The Beginning | p. 480 |
| Millions Join Earth Day Observances Across the Nation | p. 484 |
| Big Yellow Taxi | p. 490 |
| Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) | p. 491 |
| from Encounters with the Archdruid | p. 493 |
| from Only One Earth | p. 500 |
| Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front | p. 505 |
| The Making of a Marginal Farm | p. 507 |
| Preserving Wildness | p. 516 |
| Fecundity | p. 531 |
| The World's Biggest Membrane | p. 550 |
| The Third Planet: Operating Instructions | p. 555 |
| from Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken? | p. 559 |
| A First American Views His Land | p. 570 |
| from Ceremony | p. 582 |
| A Short History of America | p. 591 |
| Outside the Solar Village: One Utopian Farm | p. 595 |
| from Love Canal: My Story | p. 609 |
| from The Fate of the Earth | p. 622 |
| Seasons of Want and Plenty | p. 632 |
| Everything Is a Human Being | p. 659 |
| Bernhardsdorp | p. 671 |
| Wrath of Grapes Boycott Speech | p. 690 |
| A Presentation of Whales | p. 696 |
| Place | p. 716 |
| from The End of Nature | p. 718 |
| from Dumping in Dixie | p. 725 |
| The Summer Day | p. 737 |
| from Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place | p. 739 |
| from The Ninemile Wolves | p. 760 |
| The Dubious Rewards of Consumption | p. 770 |
| After the Flood | p. 781 |
| from The Last Panda | p. 790 |
| The Flora and Fauna of Las Vegas | p. 793 |
| Dwellings | p. 809 |
| from The Ecology of Magic | p. 815 |
| The Song of the White Pelican | p. 835 |
| A Multicultural Approach to Ecopsychology | p. 849 |
| Speech at the Kyoto Climate Change Conference | p. 855 |
| from Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America | p. 860 |
| Planet of Weeds | p. 874 |
| from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood | p. 898 |
| from The Legacy of Luna | p. 907 |
| from Inspirations for Sustaining Life on Earth: Greeting Friends in Their Andean Gardens | p. 920 |
| from Having Faith | p. 929 |
| Knowing Our Place | p. 939 |
| from The Omnivore's Dilemma | p. 948 |
| from Blessed Unrest | p. 961 |
| The Thoreau Problem | p. 971 |
| Chronology | p. 997 |
| Note on the Illustrations | p. 1005 |
| Sources and Acknowledgments | p. 1015 |
| Index | p. 1025 |