The wonder of nature. Thing is the thing is green / Peggy Elizabeth Gifford -- Delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday -- from Childe Harold's pilgrimage / George Byron -- To look at anything / John Moffitt -- Perserverance / Marin Sorescu -- Manna / Joseph Stroud -- Leisure / W. H. Davies -- Four haiku / Issa Kobayashi -- Tiger got to hunt / Kurt Vonnegut -- Nature is what we see / Emily Dickinson -- Return / Paige Towler -- Four haiku / Matsuo Basho -- The morns are meeker than they were / Emily Dickinson -- The peace of wild things / Wendell Berry --
In the sky. Changing of the guard / Charles Waters -- from Night / William Blake -- Welcome to the night / Joyce Sidman -- Old man moon / Aileen Fisher -- The man in the moon / Billy Collins -- Write about a radish / Karla Kuskin -- The aged sun / Anonymous -- Two falling flakes / Douglas Florian -- Snow / Edward Thomas -- Looking through space / Aileen Fisher -- Night comes... / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -- A baby-sermon / George Macdonald -- Stars / A.E. Housman -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman -- The opposite of a cloud / Richard Wilbur -- Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The wind / James Stephens -- The blue between / Kristine O'Connell George -- Icicles / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- San Francisco-- any night / Kelly Ramsdell Fineman, after Carl Sandburg -- The sun and fog / Emily Dickinson -- This is my rock / David McCord --
In the sea. Tideline / Kate Coombs -- By the sea / Liz Rosenburg -- At Seacliff cottage / Sonya Sones -- Haiku / Nick Virgilio -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes, to W.E.B. DuBois -- The Mississippi / Anonymous -- Galapagos: Hood Island / Bobbi Katz -- St. Elmo's fire / Georgia Heard -- Old man ocean / Russell Hoban -- Bigar Cascade Falls, Romania / Steven Withrow -- Flammable ice bubbles / Richard Michelson -- Lost giant / Mariel Bede -- Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / e.e. cummings -- Until I saw the sea / Lilian Moore -- What are heavy? / Christina Rosetti -- The Dead Sea / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Like ghosts of eagles / Robert Francis -- Ammonites: sculptures of the sea / Betsy Franco -- Where go the boats? / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The mill back home / Vern Rutsala -- In the salt marsh / Nancy Willard -- Take Bus 9 to the Red Sea Beach / John Barr -- The red crabs of Christmas Island / B.J. Lee -- The great blue hole / Donna Marie Merritt -- I owe it all to water / Mary Lee Hahn --
On the move. Advice for a frog (Concerning a crane) / Alice Schertle -- The clown fish / David Elliott -- A blessing / James Wright -- The rhea / Douglas Florian -- Queen Alexandra's birdwing / Avis Harley -- Everything old becomes new / Jane Yolen -- Gym on a rock / Sonya Sones -- Electric eel / X.J. Kennedy -- On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats -- The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay -- The difference between frog and toad / Anonymous -- The ways of living things / Jack Prelutsky -- Quail's nest / John Clare -- Self pity / D.H. Lawrence -- Cardinal nest / Charle Ghigna -- Whale / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Sips of sea / Avis Harley -- The answers / Robert Clairmont -- Advice from the scorpion / J. Patrick Lewis -- Centipede / Michael J. Rosen -- The boa / Douglas Florian --
Across the land. You ask why / Li Po -- An Indian summer day on the prairie / Vachel Lindsay -- To make a prairie / Emily Dickinson -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Up on the hill / James Hayford -- Adlestrop / Edward Thomas -- from Bat cave / Eleanor Wilner -- Desert / Marilyn Singer -- At the un-national monument along the Canadian border / WIlliam Stafford -- Former barn lot / Mark Van Doren -- Red rides west / Mariel Bede -- Sailing stone / Laura Purdie Salas -- In a quiet dark place / David L. Harrison -- Thank you note to the gorge / Patricia Hubbell -- A late walk / Robert Frost -- The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats -- The mountains-- grow unnoticed / Emily Dickinson --
In shade. Lessons in September / Tracy Vaughn Zimmer -- Time to plant trees / James Hayford -- Dew / Charles Ghigna -- Butterfly tree / Joan Bransfield Graham -- The monarch's flight to Mexico / Avis Harley -- Haiku / Virgilio -- General Sherman sequoia: world's largest tree / Joan Bransfield Graham -- Sequoia / Leonard Nathan -- The mystery / Jane Yolen -- Bouquets / Robert Francis -- Beside a chrysanthemum / So Chong Ju -- Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The release / Joseph Bruchac -- Spanish moss / Charles Ghigna -- Rainbow eucalyptus / Matt Forrest Esenwine -- Blow-up / X.J. Kennedy -- Bougainvillea / Ann Whitford Paul -- How to bake a flower / Ralph Fletcher -- Mushroom hunting / Peter Kostin -- Milkweeds, November / Michael J. Rosen -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth -- The Methuselah tree: ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest / Joan Bransfield Graham -- Rose / Janet S. Wong -- Mirrorment / A.R. Ammons -- Pine tree in January / Michael Salinger --
In distress. Avalanche / Steven Withrow -- Dormant dragons / Marilyn Singer -- Tsunami / Anonymous -- Weather deniers / Jane Yolen -- Tsunami / JonArno Lawson -- Earthquake / Mariel Bede -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- Drought / Peter Kostin -- Tornado season / Adrien Stoutenburg -- Punishing conditions / Graham Denton -- Where will we run to / X.J. Kennedy -- The merry-go round song / Andrew Fusek Peters and Polly Peters -- Birds have left without a song / John Barr -- Wildfire / Nikki Grimes -- Flood / Peter Kostin --
In season. When it is snowing / Siv Cedering -- Storm ending / Jean Toomer -- You never hear the garden grow / Lilian Moore -- Here is a poem of love and hope / Arnold Adoff -- Frost / Valerie Worth -- April rain song / Langston Hughes -- Metamorphosis / Sara Holbrook -- I so liked spring / Charlotte Mew -- Why leaves change color in the fall / J. Patrick Lewis -- Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field -- February tale / Ronee M. LaTulippe -- Sounds of winter / Anonymous -- November / Mariel Bede -- Autumn / T.E. Hulme -- November night / Adelaide Crapsey -- A crack in the clouds / Constance Levy -- In just / e.e. cummings -- The pasture / Robert Frost -- My heard leaps up / William Wordsworth -- For all / Gary Snyder -- The long summer / James Hayford --
In splendor. The Great Barrier Reef / Robert Schechter -- Mammatus clouds / Julie Larios -- Moonbow at Cumberland Falls / George Ella Lyon -- Solar eclipse / Steven Withrow -- Fish rain / Marilyn Nelson -- Moeraki boulders / Joyce Sidman -- Fossil beds at the Badlands / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Glacial erratic / Helen Frost -- Sun dogs / Janet S. Wong -- Catatumbo lightning / Kelly Ramsdell Fineman -- The Mariana Trench / X.J. Kennedy -- The Grand Canyon / Bobbi Katz -- Mount Everest / Deborah Chandra -- Pink lake / Allan Wolf -- Brinicle / Laura Purdie Salas -- Antelope Canyon / Pat Mora -- Rainforest / Judith Wright -- Niagara Falls / Avis Harley -- Yellowstone / Douglas Florian -- Lake Baikal / Michael J. Rosen -- Bioluminescence in the Maldives / Paige Towler -- Pororoca Tidal Bore / Janet S. Wong -- Wonder down under / Ted Scheu -- Red tide / April Halprin Wayland -- Petrified Forest / Amy Ludwig VanDerwater -- Aurora Borealis / Steven Withrow -- Northern Lights / J. Patrick Lewis --
Last thoughts. Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost
Nature / Henry David Thoreau
Swift things are beautiful / Elizabeth Coatsworth
Lessons of nature / J. Patrick Lewis, after Samuel Hazo
The earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton
In beauty may I walk / Anonymous (Navajo Indian)
Post-it notes from the world / J. Patrick Lewis
