"Introduction: The Growth of Wilderness Seeds" / Michael P. Nelson and J. Baird Callicott --
pt. 1. Unreceived Wilderness Idea: The Road Not Taken --
"Animal Life as an Asset of National Parks" / Joseph Grinnell and Tracy I. Storer --
"The Need for a More Serious Effort to Rescue a Few Fragments of Vanishing Nature" / Francis B. Sumner --
"Importance of Natural Conditions in National Parks" / Barrington Moore --
"The Importance of Preserving Wilderness Conditions" / Charles C. Adams --
"Problems of Geographical Origin, " from Fauna of the National Parks of the United States: A Preliminary Survey of Faunal Relations in National Parks / George M. Wright, Joseph S. Dixon and Ben H. Thompson --
"Big Game of Our National Parks" / George M. Wright --
"The Preservation of Natural Biotic Communities" / Victor E. Shelford --
"Conservation versus Preservation" / Victor E. Shelford --
"Wilderness as a Land Laboratory" / Aldo Leopold --
"Science, Recreation, and Leopold's Quest for a Durable Scale" / Julianne Lutz Warren --
"The Value of Wilderness to Science" / Stephen H. Spurr --
"From Woodcraft to 'Leave No Trace': Wilderness, Consumerism, and Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America" / James Morton Turner --
"Wilderness Preservation Argument 31: The Psychotherapy at a Distance Argument" / Mark P. Jenkins --
pt. 2. Race, Class, Culture, and Wilderness --
"Imagining Nature and Erasing Class and Race: Carleton Watkins, John Muir, and the Construction of Wilderness" / Kevin DeLuca and Anne Demo --
"Jackfish Pete: Pete LaPrairie's Story" / Lynn Maria Laitala --
"Wilderness Preservation and Biodiversity Conservation: Keeping Divergent Goals Distinct" / Sahotra Sarkar --
"Cross-Cultural Confusion: Application of World Heritage Concepts in Scenic and Historic Interest Areas in China" / Feng Han --
"Recycled Rain Forest Myths" / Antonio Carlos Diegues --
"A Willing Benefactor: An Essay on Wilderness in Nilotic and Bantu Culture" / G.W. Burnett, Regine Joulie-Kuttner and Kamuyu wa Kang'ethe --
"What Is Africa to Me? Wilderness in Black Thought, 1860-1930" / Kimberly K. Smith --
"African-American Wildland Memories" / Cassandra Y. Johnson and J.M. Bowker --
pt. 3. Wilderness Idea Roundly Criticized and Defended ... Again --
"Is Nature Real?" / Gary Snyder --
"Contemporary Criticisms of the Received Wilderness Idea" / J. Baird Callicott --
"The Real Wilderness Idea" / Dave Foreman --
"Changing Human Relationships with Nature: Making and Remaking Wilderness Science" / Jill M. Belsky --
"The Not-So-Great Wilderness Debate ... Continued" / David W. Orr --
"On Wilderness and People: A View from Mt. Marcy" / Wayne Ouderkirk --
"Something Wild? Deleuze and Guattari, Wilderness, and Purity" / Jonathan Maskit --
"Wild: Rhythm of the Appearing and Disappearing" / Irene J. Klaver --
"Against the Social Construction of Nature and Wilderness" / Eileen Crist --
"Wilderness, Cultivation and Appropriation" / John O'Neill --
"Conservation Biologists Challenge Traditional Nature Protection Organizations" / Michael McCloskey --
pt. 4. Thinking through the Wilderness Idea --
"Wilderness" / Marilynne Robinson --
"The Implication of the 'Shifting Paradigm' in Ecology for Paradigm Shifts in the Philosophy of Conservation" / J. Baird Callicott --
"Hell, No. Of Course Not. But ..." / Wendell Berry --
"Wilderness as a Sabbath for the Land" / Scott Russell Sanders --
"Distinguishing Experiential and Physical Conceptions of Wilderness" / John A. Vucetich and Michael P. Nelson --
"The Riddle of the Apostle Islands: How Do You Manage a Wilderness Full of Human Stories?" / William Cronon --
"Letting Nature Run Wild in the National Parks" / Rolf O. Peterson --
"Ecological Theory and Values in the Determination of Conservation Goals: Examples from Temperate Regions of Germany, United States of America, and Chile" / Kurt Jax and Ricardo Rozzi --
"Wilderness as Witness (Cape Perpetua)" / Kathleen Dean Moore.
