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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Prologue: Persons from Porlock | |
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| Waves | |
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| The Marriage of Grass and Man: A look at the logic of husbandry, from wheat's point of view | |
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| Axis Powers: Long before humankind, alliances of species were conquering the world | |
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| Dirt Cheap: The rise and fall of the soil community, and the cost of modern farming | |
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| The New Pangaea: Biological invasion: How ships and airplanes erode the diversity of life | |
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| The Human Mushroom: The odd ecology of fossil fuel, and why getting energy is a risky business | |
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| Life on the Edge: The tricky, and partly illusory, transition from nature to culture | |
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| The Mountain and the Tower | |
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| The Mountain of the Gods: Canaan: The heart of the world is wilderness | |
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| The Tower of Babel: Mesopotamia: The heart of the world is the city | |
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| The Fiery Sword: Israel: In making our paradise we unmake Eden, and so expel ourselves | |
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| The Rivers of Eden: How streams and pools of wildness keep civilization alive | |
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| Storming the Mountain: Gilgamesh and Enki: The triumph over nature and its bitter, or salty, aftertaste | |
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| The Highways of Rome: From a Hebrew god tied to place, to the perils of Western universalism | |
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| Idylls | |
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| Arcadia: In search of the perfect midpoint between city and wilderness | |
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| Lost Illusions: Summer places and their discontents; and some lessons from the real Arcadia | |
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| The Walled Garden: Persia: What the garden walls out, and how its pattern soothes the divided soul | |
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| Patting Nature on the Head: Greek gardens, or the lack thereof, and the Roman empire of greenery | |
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| The Cloister and the Plow: The Middle Ages: Contemplating heaven while mastering the earth | |
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| Bringing a Statue to Life: The Renaissance garden as refuge from plague, proletarians, and paradox | |
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| Leaping the Fence: Sun King and Ice Age; coal, capital, colonies, and the English landscape garden | |
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| Westward in Eden: The real American experiment: A direct relation to nature, culture be damned | |
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| A Goddess Quantified: Gaia, chaos, complexity: The nervous alliance of science and myth | |
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| Earth Jazz | |
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| Managers and Fetishers: Two schools that dominate the current debate, and why both are wrong | |
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| Bebop: In search of a musical model for our collaboration with nature | |
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| The Wild Garden: From rain forest to desert, indigenous peoples have learned to learn from nature | |
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| The Tree of Life: It's not the fiascos of biotechnology that we should fear, but its successes | |
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| The Tree of Knowledge: Finding the garden in the machine-- without being lulled by "soft technology" | |
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| The Urban Animal: A second look at the city, which ought to be nature's best friend | |
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| Reclaiming Arcadia: Another second look: Suburbs, summer homes, and how they might be redeemed | |
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| Two Networks: Hedgerows, greenbelts, wildlife corridors: The geometry of wildness | |
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| Hot and Cool: The challenge of global warming, and why nature is never spent | |
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| The Foothills of Eden: A look back over the ground we have covered; and a view from heaven | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |