Part I: The Poems
To Earth, Old Friend
From Carefree to Caring
If Only
Earth Education
Among Wild Things
Birth of an Ecopoet
Earth Learner
Chapter 2: Where Knowledge Buds
Sequoia Wisdom
Flora, Restorative
To the Susquehanna River
Symposium of Life
Ecology 101
Lavender Ambition
Ecclesiastes of the Earth
Chapter 3: Reading Natural Histories
Millenary Evergreen
Attribution
Ascent
Efflorescence
Mostly Water
Breathing
At One's Disposal
Continuance
Colorado River Wisdom
Chlorophyll
Emerging World
Freeform
Grace
Chapter 4: Animal Academies
Ornithology
Blue Warbler
In Search of Animal Spirits
Jurassic Tableau
At the Bird Feeder
Bestiary
To the Ants
Red-Tailed Hawk
Meerkats
Flight School
Caterpillar
Butterfly Sight
Symbiosis in the Sea
Interdependent Independence
Flightpaths
Arias
Hibernation
The Hummingbird as Instructor
Milkweed to Monarchs
Owl Optics
Bear Bistro
Accord
Whale Song
Chapter 5: Natural Philosophies
Observing Orders of the World
Apologies
Evergreen Friend
Mirror of Eternity
Gaia's Alive
Earth Verses
The Earth Is Perfect...
Disembodied
Release
Sapling
Fledgling
Natural Arts
Genealogy of Breathing
Bracing Rays
Wisdom of the Mountains
Chapter 6: Through Roots of Truth
Forest of Momentary Gold
From Guesthouse to Greenhouse
Fulcrum
Unrestrained
Maternal Earth
Course of Nature
Facing the Gorgon
Overcoming
Bryce Canyon
Ever So Briefly
Mound
Burgeon
Arrayed
To Irises
Toward the Wisdom Tree
Along the Shore of Surety
Cathedral Woods
Chapter 7: Between the Teachings of the Trees
The Dawning
Reclaimed by Nature
Nature's Wordless Verses
Place
Sapwood
The Last Tree Standing
What the Tree Said
Vital Deadwood
Dewdrop
Sustenance
Of Moss and Metaphor
Towards Tolerance
Yielding
Revolutionary Nature
The Tiller's Tale
The Improbable Rose
Chapter 8: Terrestrial Teachers and Sky Schools
American Falls
Crash Course
The Geode's Secret
Conceit
Dispatch
Resemblance vs. Reality
Shells
Anonymous
Dramatic Irony
Rock Concert
To an Onion
Corolla
Whole
Scope
Walden's Nowhere
Absorption
Deliquesce
Resolve
Cryogenian
Mass of Life
Annals
Unopposed
Salvage
Chapter 9: Land Lectures and Water Courses
To Be More Like the Waterfall
Drowning or Diving
Reach
Currently
Endurance
Painting Earth
Bankrupt
Green Space
Oceanography
Family Circle
Lake Meditations
Picturesque
Hydrologic
Above
The Steady Flowing
One
Chapter 10: The Perennial Education
Inception
What's Not Here
Ode to the Ordinary
Winter Solstice
Naturally
Garden Promise
Reclamation
Renewal
Nature Study
War on Nature
Agreement
Growth Rings
Garden of Early Delights
Spiraling
Branches of Knowledge
Thank You Note
To Future Students of the Earth
Part II: Essays
About the Author
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