Prologue : words in the wind (the Green Mountains, Vermont)
To think of time (the Habitation, Nova Scotia)
The pattern of life indelible (Belgrade Lakes, Maine)
The everlastingly great look of the sky (Walden Pond, Massachusetts)
Here is New York (New York, New York)
Anasazi (the Four Corners)
Knowing where you've been (the Bitterroot Mountains, Montana)
Shore lines (the Great Lakes)
Of trees and time (Warren Woods, Michigan)
Malabar Farm (Malabar Farm State Park, Ohio)
Terra cognita (Acadia National Park, Maine)
Time and tide (Acadia National Park, Maine)
Epilogue : postscript to a postscript to "the ring of time" (Sarasota, Florida).