Bedrock : Writers on the Wonders of Geology

Acknowledgments ix Foreword xi Gordon P. Eaton Introduction xv 1 Of Rock and Stone 1(42) from The Stones Cry Out 5(8) Hikaru Okuizumi from ``The Innocence of Rock'' in A Sense of the Earth 13(3) David Leveson from ``Ode to the Land: The Dine Perspective'' 16(6) Luci Tapahonso from ``Digression on Rocks, Soils and Men'' in A Land 22(5) Jacquetta Hawkes from A Passage to India 27(3) E. M. Forster from ``The Relic Men'' in The Night Country 30(8) Loren Eiseley ``A Question of Conglomerate'' 38(3) Ann Zwinger ``Rock'' from Given Sugar, Given Salt 41(2) Jane Hirshfield 2 Deep Time 43(28) from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 46(1) James Joyce from ``The Slit'' in The Immense Journey 47(6) Loren Eiseley from Wind, Sand and Stars 53(2) Antoine de Saint-Exupery ``The Fish in the Stone'' from Museum 55(1) Rita Dove from Theory of the Earth 56(4) James Hutton from Man in the Landscape 60(5) Paul Shepard from Letters from the Earth 65(6) Mark Twain 3 Faults, Earthquakes, and Tsunamis 71(28) from An Account of My Hut 75(2) Kamo no Chomei from Roughing It 77(3) Mark Twain from ``The Investigation of the California Earthquake of 1906'' 80(6) Grove Karl Gilbert ``The Temblor: A Personal Narration'' 86(8) Mary Austin from ``Assembling California'' in Annals of the Former World 94(2) John McPhee from ``The Recent Earthquake Wave on the Coast of Japan'' 96(3) Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore 4 Volcanoes and Eruptions 99(56) from Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives 103(6) John Calderazzo from Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i 109(6) Garrett Hongo from ``Cooling the Lava'' in The Control of Nature 115(7) John McPhee ``Account of the Death of Pliny the Elder'' 122(3) Pliny the Younger from Voyage of the Beagle 125(4) Charles Darwin from ``Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos'' in Teaching a Stone to Talk 129(2) Annie Dillard ``Not a Very Sensible Place for a Stroll'' in Craters of Fire 131(9) Haroun Tazieff ``Fire in the Night'' 140(6) James D. Houston ``A Very Warm Mountain'' 146(9) Ursula K. Le Guin 5 On Mountains and Highlands 155(38) from Modern Painters 160(2) John Ruskin from ``Letter VII'' in A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 162(4) Isabella Bird from ``Basin and Range'' in Annals of the Former World 166(5) John McPhee from ``Look to the Mountaintop'' 171(5) Alfonso Ortiz from Land of the Spotted Eagle 176(2) Luther Standing Bear from This House of Sky 178(4) Ivan Doig from The Sacred Theory of the Earth 182(3) Thomas Burnet from Landscape in History and Other Essays 185(4) Sir Archibald Geikie from My First Summer in the Sierra 189(2) John Muir ``Why'' 191(2) Nanao Sakaki 6 Rivers to the Sea 193(36) ``The Negro Speaks of Rivers'' 197(1) Langston Hughes from ``The Flow of the River'' in The Immense Journey 198(4) Loren Eiseley from From Heaven Lake 202(4) Vikram Seth from ``A Native Hill'' 206(2) Wendell Berry from ``The Bend'' in River Notes 208(4) Barry Lopez from The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (formerly Canyons of the Colorado) 212(7) John Wesley Powell ``the mississippi river empties into the gulf'' from The Terrible Stories 219(1) Lucille Clifton from ``Atchafalaya'' in The Control of Nature 220(4) John McPhee from ``The Marginal World'' in The Edge of the Sea 224(5) Rachel Carson 7 The Work of Ice 229(26) from Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery 232(3) John Imbrie Katherine Palmer Imbrie from An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery 235(3) William Scoresby, Jr. from The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica 238(4) Stephen J. Pyne from ``The Great Scablands Debate'' in The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History 242(4) Stephen Jay Gould from Arnold Heim and August Gassner's The Throne of the Gods 246(5) August Gansser from Wolfsong 251(1) Louis Owens from The Yosemite 252(3) John Muir 8 Wind and Desert 255(34) from Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land 260(3) Jan DeBlieu from The English Patient 263(2) Michael Ondaatje from Conversations with the Earth 265(2) Hans Cloos from ``The Physics of Blown Sand'' in Sahara Unveiled 267(4) William Langewiesche ``Sahara'' from The Black Unicorn 271(3) Audre Lorde ``Desert Rain'' in The Sheltering Desert 274(3) Henno Martin from The Land of Little Rain 277(5) Mary Austin ``Wind'' from Ocean Power 282(3) Ofelia Zepeda from ``White Sands'' in Memory Fever 285(4) Ray Gonzalez 9 Living on Earth 289(34) from The Way to Rainy Mountain 292(4) N. Scott Momaday from Out of the Earth 296(3) Daniel Hillel from Report to Greco 299(2) Nikos Kazantzakis from The Breast of the Earth 301(2) Kofi Awoonor from The Grapes of Wrath 303(4) John Steinbeck from ``Interior and Exterior Landscapes: The Pueblo Migration Stories'' 307(7) Leslie Marmon Silko from A Sense of the Earth 314(3) David Leveson from ``An American Land Ethic'' in The Man Made of Words 317(4) N. Scott Momaday ``Earth Verse'' in Mountains and Rivers Without End 321(2) Gary Snyder Contributors 323(10) Permissions 333(6) Photo credits 339