Foreword / President Jimmy Carter --

Preface. How civilized are we? / Don Henley --

Introduction. 1. A brief history of the Walden books project; 2. Sand and water, fire and ice: Walden Pond and Walden Woods, gifts of the glacier --

Walden, symbol of hope / Edmund A. Schofield --

Remarks at the Walden Woods project press conference

Boston, Massachusetts, April 25, 1990 /

E.L. Doctorow --

Winter ponds / James Earl Jones --

Remembering Thoreau and preserving Walden Pond / Senator Edward M. Kennedy --

A world of Waldens / Martin J. Rosen --

West Boulder Spring / Thomas McGuane --

Out of rot, all good things cometh / Bette Midler --

The end of more / Don Johnson --

Walden Woods / Anne LaBastille --

A revisionist's Walden / Jim Harrison.

Taking it personally / Robert Redford --

The fabric of Thoreau country / Congressman Chester G. Atkins --

That "Dirty little atheist" Thoreau: confessions of an Emersonian / Wesley T. Mott --

Environmental ramblins / Ted Danson --

A tribute to Henry David Thoreau / Reverend Jesse L. Jackson --

Mountaineity: thoughts above treeline / Richard F. Fleck --

Little Green: a place to grow / Paula Abdul --

Of living creatures / James A. Michener --

Toward a land ethic / George F. Frampton --

I can't see the forest if there are no trees / Tom Cruise --

The swim / Gary Trudeau --

On spirit and initiative / Alan H. Edmond --

Yo, Thoreau! / John Nichols.

As Pogo said ... / Mike Farrell --

The lessons of Walden / Bette Woody --

The American promise / John O'Connor --

A boxful of Africa / Jimmy Buffett --

Stewards of the lake and the woods / Senator John Kerry --

"I would fain drink a draught of Nature's serenity" / Marian Thornton --

Following dreams / Pat Riley --

Commerce & community: the natural partnership / Michael Kennedy --

In wildness is the preservation of the world / John A. Hoyt --

Three yards / Michael Dorris --

Three ponds / Louise Erdrich --

A walk on the gurnet / John McAleer --

Solar electricity / Jack Nicholson --

A river and a pond / Kathi Anderson --

Walden Woods: a sacred trust / Gregory Peck --

Back to the grassroots / Jim Hightower --

Children are our future, give them light and let them lead the way / Meryl Streep.

A balance between our need and our greed / Arun Gandhi --

One pond, many parks / Paul C. Pritchard --

From the big chill to the big picture / Mary Kay Place --

Seeing what is before us / Robert Bly --

The Romans, the Mad Hatters and ... Walden 1991? / Kirstie Alley --

The new call to arms / Todd N. Tatum --

Deya

change comes to the global village /

Diandra M. Douglas --

Live simply so others can simply live / Ed Begley, Jr. --

Chief Seattle speaks / Floyd Red Crow Westerman/Chief Seattle --

Walled-in beings / Arlo Guthrie --

Walden: our living heritage / Paul Tsongas --

Talking loud and saying nothing: an exercise in civil disobedience / Whoopi Goldberg --

Scenic America: can it be saved? / Edward T. McMahon --

Progress, the G.N.P. and the naming of things / Sting.

To hell with marriage / Kurt Vonnegut --

Listen / Janet Jackson --

Pesticides, children and cancer / Cesar Chavez --

Baby, you can drive my Hovercraft / Tom Hanks --

Earth Day, 1990 / John DeVillars --

Thoreau & Qomolangma / Shigeyuki Okajima --

Air apparent / Priscilla A. Chapman --

The boll weevil song / Dave Marsh --

Reading by lamplight / Carrie Fisher --

Thoreau country

the wild, wild East /

Bill McKibben --

Conscience and community / John Nichols --

Qualified homage to Thoreau / Wallace Stegner.