Table of Contents

Preface

PART ONE: Getting to Know the Neighbours
  A Day in May
  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Birdwatcher
  My People
  The Call of a Wolf
  Roving around the World
  Getting to Know the Neighbours
  Natural Art
  Aristocrats of Time and Space

PART TWO: Message in the Bones
  Message in the Bones
  The Grapes of La Mancha
  If a Tree Falls
  A Village Story
  Homo sapiens Teenager consumerensis
  Small Is Beautiful
  Unholy Alliance
  Natural Capitalism
  Beyond the Rapids

PART THREE: Signs of Hope
  An Alpine Idea
  The Grameen Bank
  Nigerian Public Transit
  The Ecology of Cities
  Holy Alliances
  From Tortoise Islet
  Good People
  A View from the Mountain

More Food for Thought
Acknowledgments

About the Author

ROBERT BATEMAN's fascinations with nature dates from his boyhood in Toronto, where he began his lifelong education as a naturalist by studying and sketching the species he saw in the ravine behind his house. An internationally acclaimed artist whose paintings can be found in collections worldwide, he is the bestselling author of fifteen books. An officer of the Order of Canada, the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates and an honorary life member of many conservation organizations, he devotes a great deal of his time to finding ways to preserve the natural world. Bateman lives with his wife, Birgit, on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.