Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Returning -- Solitude -- Sun Time -- The Wild Work -- Johnson's Pond -- Tools -- Gathering Wood -- Digging a Root Cellar -- A Mountain Garden -- The Pacifist and the Hunter -- Fishing -- Homebrew -- Bees -- Neighbors -- Connemara -- New Native -- Cherokee -- The New Naturalists -- Animal Stories -- Snowed In -- A Walk in the Woods -- Earthquake -- When Legends Die -- Afterword -- Credits -- About the Author