Introduction: American nature writing and the pastoral tradition / John Cooley
Edward Abbey. A few words in favor of Edward Abbey / Wendell Berry
Edward Abbey: Joining the visionary "inhumanists" / Diane Wakoski
Wendell Berry. Wendell Berry resettles America: Fidelity, education, and culture / Steven Weiland
Wendell Berry's husband to the world: A place on earth / Jack Hicks
Annie Dillard. "Pray without ceasing": Annie Dillard among the nature writers / James I. McClintock
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and the social legacy of Walden / Gary McIlroy
Joseph Wood Krutch. "Mr. Krutch" / Edward Abbey
Aldo Leopold. Anatomy of a Classic / John Tallmadge
Barry Lopez. Barry Lopez and the search for a dignified and honorable relationship with nature / William H. Rueckert
Peter Matthiessen. Matthiessen's voyages on the River Styx: Deathly waters, endangered peoples / John Cooley.

John McPhee. John McPhee: The making of a meta-naturalist / Thomas C. Bailey
Gary Snyder. Gary Snyder's descent to Turtle Island: Searching for fosil love / Ed Folsom
Penance or perception: Spirituality and land in the poetry of Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry / Patrick D. Murphy
Afterword: Toward an ecocriticism / John Cooley.