Prologue
Only a Little Planet
Lawrence Collins
Creating Context
Butterfly or Asteroid? • Thinking Naturally • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What Is Our Relationship with Nature?
Thinking Skill: Evaluating
- The Growin’ of Paul Bunyan (folktale)
- William J. Brooke
- Wisdomkeepers (interview)
- Harvey Arden and Steve Wall
- For Richard Chase (poem)
- Jim Wayne Miller
- Is Humanity a Special Threat? (essay)
- Gregg Easterbrook
- Nacho Loco (short story)
- Gary Soto
- Baptisms (poem)
- Joseph Bruchac
Cluster Two: What Happens When Humanity and Nature Collide?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- A Fable for Tomorrow (essay)
- From Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
- Battle for the Rain Forest (article)
- Joe Kane
- All Revved Up About an Even Bigger Vehicle (humor column)
- Dave Barry
- When Nature Comes Too Close (article)
- Anthony Brandt
- A Sound of Thunder (short story)
- Ray Bradbury
- And They Lived Happily Ever After for a While (poem)
- John Ciardi
Cluster Three: How Can We Live in Harmony with Nature?
Thinking Skill: Problem Solving
- Heroes for the Planet: Then and Now (photo essay)
- Time magazine
- The Sun (poem)
- Mary Oliver
- A Palace of Bird Beaks (folktale)
- Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush
- The Face of a Spider (essay)
- David Quammen
- David Meets Goliath at City Hall (article)
- Andrew Holleman
- Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals (personal opinion)
- Jessica Szymczyk
- Working Against Time (poem)
- David Wagoner
- The King of the Beasts (short story)
- Philip José Farmer
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- A Young Environmentalist Speaks Out (speech)
- Severn Cullis-Suzuki
- The Mushroom (essay)
- H. M. Hoover
- Duck Hunting (autobiography)
- Gary Paulsen
- The Last Dog (short story)
- Katherine Paterson
- Is the Weather Getting Worse? (article)
- Colin Marquis and Stu Ostro
- The Last Street (poem)
- Abraham Reisen
