Personal. Finding the place: a migrant childhood -- Letter, much too late -- Crossing into Eden -- Habitat. Thoughts in a dry land -- Living dry -- Striking the rock -- Variations on a theme by Crèvecoeur -- A capsule history of conservation -- Witnesses. Coming of age: the end of the beginning -- On Steinbeck's story "Flight" -- George R. Stewart and the American land -- Walter Clark's frontier -- Haunted by waters: Norman Maclean -- The sense of place -- A letter to Wendell Berry -- The law of nature and the dream of man: ruminations on the art of fiction.
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