Introduction / J. Patrick Lewis --
Thing is the thing is green / Peggy Elizabeth Gifford --
The wonder of nature. Delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday ; from Childe Harold's pilgrimage / George Byron ; To look at anything / John Moffitt ; Perserverance / Marin Sorescu ; Manna / Joseph Stroud ; Leisure / W.H. Davies ; Four haiku / Issa Kobayashi ; Tiger got to hunt / Kurt Vonnegut ; Nature is what we see / Emily Dickinson ; Return / Paige Towler ; Four haiku / Matsuo Basho ; The morns are meeker than they were / Emily Dickinson ; The peace of wild things / Wendell Berry --
In the sky. Changing of the guard / Charles Waters ; from Night / William Blake ; Welcome to the night / Joyce Sidman ; Old man moon / Aileen Fisher ; The man in the moon / Billy Collins ; Write about a radish / Karla Kuskin ; The aged sun / Anonymous ; Two falling flakes / Douglas Florian ; Snow / Edward Thomas ; Looking through space / Aileen Fisher ; Night comes ... / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers ; A baby-sermon / George Macdonald ; Stars / A.E. Housman ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman ; The opposite of a cloud / Richard Wilbur ; Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson ; Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson ; The wind / James Stephens ; The blue between / Kristine O'Connell George ; Icicles / Lee Bennett Hopkins ; San Francisco
Kelly Ramsdell Fineman, after Carl Sandburg ; The sun and fog / Emily Dickinson ; This is my rock / David McCord --
In the sea. Tideline / Kate Coombs ; By the sea / Liz Rosenburg ; At Seacliff cottage / Sonya Sones ; Haiku / Nick Virgilio ; The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes, to W.E.B. DuBois ; The Mississippi / Anonymous ; Galapagos: Hood Island / Bobbi Katz ; St. Elmo's fire / Georgia Heard ; Old man ocean / Russell Hoban ; Bigar Cascade Falls, Romania / Steven Withrow ; Flammable ice bubbles / Richard Michelson ; Lost giant / Mariel Bede ; Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / e.e. cummings ; Until I saw the sea / Lilian Moore ; What are heavy? / Christina Rosetti ; The Dead Sea / Rebecca Kai Dotlich ; Like ghosts of eagles / Robert Francis ; Ammonites: sculptures of the sea / Betsy Franco ; Where go the boats? / Robert Louis Stevenson ; The mill back home / Vern Rutsala ; In the salt marsh / Nancy Willard ; Take Bus 9 to the Red Sea Beach / John Barr ; The red crabs of Christmas Island / B.J. Lee ; The great blue hole / Donna Marie Merritt ; I owe it all to water / Mary Lee Hahn --
On the move. Advice for a frog (Concerning a crane) / Alice Schertle ; The clown fish / David Elliott ; A blessing / James Wright ; The rhea / Douglas Florian ; Queen Alexandra's birdwing / Avis Harley ; Everything old becomes new / Jane Yolen ; Gym on a rock / Sonya Sones ; Electric eel / X.J. Kennedy ; On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats ; The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay ; The difference between frog and toad / Anonymous ; The ways of living things / Jack Prelutsky ; Quail's nest / John Clare ; Self pity / D.H. Lawrence ; Cardinal nest / Charle Ghigna ; Whale / Mary Ann Hoberman ; Sips of sea / Avis Harley ; The answers / Robert Clairmont ; Advice from the scorpion / J. Patrick Lewis ; Centipede / Michael J. Rosen ; The boa / Douglas Florian --
Across the land. You ask why / Li Po ; An Indian summer day on the prairie / Vachel Lindsay ; To make a prairie / Emily Dickinson ; Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; Up on the hill / James Hayford ; Adlestrop / Edward Thomas ; from Bat cave / Eleanor Wilner ; Desert / Marilyn Singer ; At the un-national monument along the Canadian border / WIlliam Stafford ; Former barn lot / Mark Van Doren ; Red rides west / Mariel Bede ; Sailing stone / Laura Purdie Salas ; In a quiet dark place / David L. Harrison ; Thank you note to the gorge / Patricia Hubbell ; A late walk / Robert Frost ; The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats ; The mountains
In shade. Lessons in September / Tracy Vaughn Zimmer ; Time to plant trees / James Hayford ; Dew / Charles Ghigna ; Butterfly tree / Joan Bransfield Graham ; The monarch's flight to Mexico / Avis Harley ; Haiku / Virgilio ; General Sherman sequoia: world's largest tree / Joan Bransfield Graham ; Sequoia / Leonard Nathan ; The mystery / Jane Yolen ; Bouquets / Robert Francis ; Beside a chrysanthemum / So Chong Ju ; Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; The release / Joseph Bruchac ; Spanish moss / Charles Ghigna ; Rainbow eucalyptus / Matt Forrest Esenwine ; Blow-up / X.J. Kennedy ; Bougainvillea / Ann Whitford Paul ; How to bake a flower / Ralph Fletcher ; Mushroom hunting / Peter Kostin ; Milkweeds, November / Michael J. Rosen ; I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth ; The Methuselah tree: ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest / Joan Bransfield Graham ; Rose / Janet S. Wong ; Mirrorment / A.R. Ammons ; Pine tree in January / Michael Salinger --
In distress. Avalanche / Steven Withrow ; Dormant dragons / Marilyn Singer ; Tsunami / Anonymous ; Weather deniers / Jane Yolen ; Tsunami / JonArno Lawson ; Earthquake / Mariel Bede ; Fire and ice / Robert Frost ; Drought / Peter Kostin ; Tornado season / Adrien Stoutenburg ; Punishing conditions / Graham Denton ; Where will we run to / X.J. Kennedy ; The merry-go round song / Andrew Fusek Peters and Polly Peters ; Birds have left without a song / John Barr ; Wildfire / Nikki Grimes ; Flood / Peter Kostin --
In season. When it is snowing / Siv Cedering ; Storm ending / Jean Toomer ; You never hear the garden grow / Lilian Moore ; Here is a poem of love and hope / Arnold Adoff ; Frost / Valerie Worth ; April rain song / Langston Hughes ; Metamorphosis / Sara Holbrook ; I so liked spring / Charlotte Mew ; Why leaves change color in the fall / J. Patrick Lewis ; Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field ; February tale / Ronee M. LaTulippe ; Sounds of winter / Anonymous ; November / Mariel Bede ; Autumn / T.E. Hulme ; November night / Adelaide Crapsey ; A crack in the clouds / Constance Levy ; In just / e.e. cummings ; The pasture / Robert Frost ; My heard leaps up / William Wordsworth ; For all / Gary Snyder ; The long summer / James Hayford --
In splendor. The Great Barrier Reef / Robert Schechter ; Mammatus clouds / Julie Larios ; Moonbow at Cumberland Falls / George Ella Lyon ; Solar eclipse / Steven Withrow ; Fish rain / Marilyn Nelson ; Moeraki boulders / Joyce Sidman ; Fossil beds at the Badlands / Naomi Shihab Nye ; Glacial erratic / Helen Frost ; Sun dogs / Janet S. Wong ; Catatumbo lightning / Kelly Ramsdell Fineman ; The Mariana Trench / X.J. Kennedy ; The Grand Canyon / Bobbi Katz ; Mount Everest / Deborah Chandra ; Pink lake / Allan Wolf ; Brinicle / Laura Purdie Salas ; Antelope Canyon / Pat Mora ; Rainforest / Judith Wright ; Niagara Falls / Avis Harley ; Yellowstone / Douglas Florian ; Lake Baikal / Michael J. Rosen ; Bioluminescence in the Maldives / Paige Towler ; Pororoca Tidal Bore / Janet S. Wong ; Wonder down under / Ted Scheu ; Red tide / April Halprin Wayland ; Petrified Forest / Amy Ludwig VanDerwater ; Aurora Borealis / Steven Withrow ; Northern Lights / J. Patrick Lewis --
Last thoughts. Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost ; Nature / Henry David Thoreau ; Swift things are beautiful / Elizabeth Coatsworth ; Lessons of nature / J. Patrick Lewis, after Samuel Hazo ; The earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton ; In beauty may I walk / Anonymous (Navajo Indian) ; Post-it notes from the world / J. Patrick Lewis ; Who is Mother Nature?