Introduction / by Kim Stanley Robinson
from Earth house hold: Lookout's journal ; Japan first time around ; Spring sesshin at Shokoku-ji ; Buddhism and the coming revolution ; Passage to more than India ; Poetry and the primitive ; Suwa-no-se Island and the Banyan ashram
from He who hunted birds in his father's village: The myth ; Function of the myth
from The real work: The real work ; The east west interview ; Poetry, community & climax
from Passage through India: The Cambodge ; Pondicherry ; Khajuraho ; Dharamshala ; Dalai Lama
from The practice of the wild: The etiquette of freedom ; The place, the region, and the commons ; Tawny grammar ; Good, wild, sacred ; Blue mountains and constantly walking ; Ancient forests of the Far West ; On the path, off the trail ; Grace
from A place in space: Smokey the Bear sutra ; Four changes, with a postscript ; "Energy is eternal delight" ; Unnatural writing ; The porous world ; Coming into the watershed ; Kitkitdizze : a node in the net
The Paris Review interview : the art of poetry LXXIV
from Back on the fire: The ark of the Sierra ; Ecology, literature and the new world disorder ; Writers and the war against nature ; Entering the fifth millennium ; Lifetimes with fire ; Regarding "Smokey the Bear sutra"
from Tamalpais walking: Underfoot earth turns
The great clod: Summer in Hokkaido ; All he sees is blue : basic Far East ; The great clod : China and nature ; "Wild" in China ; Ink and charcoal ; Walls within walls ; Beyond Cathay : the hill tribes of China ; Wolf-hair brush
Uncollected essays: Walking the great ridge Omine on the Womb-Diamond Trail
Turn off the calculating mind!
