Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338).

Prologue: Cultures of Habitat -- Finding Ourselves in the Far Outside -- Pledging Allegiance to All Sorts of Diversity -- Missing the Boat: Why Cultural Diversity Didn't Make It onto the Ark -- Sierra Madre Upshot: Ecological and Agricultural Health -- Children in Touch, Creatures in Story -- Making Places Close to Home Where the Soul Can Fly -- Growing Up Othered: An Arab-American Childhood -- Behind the Zipper: Discovering the Diversity around Us -- Finding the Wild Thread: The Evolution of a Naturalist -- Hummingbirds and Human Aggression -- Searching for Lost Places -- Cultural Parallax: The Wilderness Concept in Crisis -- When the Spring of Animal Dreams Runs Dry -- Killer, Fire, and the Aboriginal Way -- Diabetes, Diet, and Native American Foraging Traditions -- Let Us Now Praise Native Crops: An American Cornucopia -- Harvest Time: Agricultural Change on the Northern Plains -- Tequila Hangovers and the Mescal Monoculture Blues -- Hornworm's Home Ground: Conserving Interactions -- The Parable of the Poppy and the Bee -- The Pollinator and the Predator: Conservation That Zoos Can't Do -- Why Chiles Are Hot: Seed Dispersal and Plant Survival -- Where Creatures and Cultures Know No Boundaries -- Showdown in the Rain Forest -- Epilogue: Restorying the Sonorous Landscape.