"Preface": Excerpt from AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Philadelphia.

"Winter Paths": "Nature's Way" essay on paths of possibility.

"Song of the Woods": "Nature's Way" essay on an invisible singer.

"Message Sent; Message Received": "Nature's Way" essay on communications devices.

"Dawnsong and Sundance": "Nature's Way" essay on the coming of the light.

"Fruit on the Floor": "Nature's Way" essay on when the time is ripe.

"E Pluribus Unum": "Nature's Way" essay on the many languages of mint.

"I Know Where the Bees Went": "Nature's Way" essay on flower power.

"To See the World in a Grain of Pollen": "Nature's Way" essay about the madness of trees.

"Nothing Doing: Great Blue Herons at Quakertown Swamp." "The Nature of Bucks" essay on the virtues of sitting.