| Introduction, 3 | |
| 1 | Landfall: The New World as New Creation, 15 |
| Hayle Holly Land, 15 | |
| From William Bradford's “Hideous and Desolate Wilderness” to Cotton Mather's Sacred Geography, 18 | |
| Thomas Morton's Idol Experiment: Nature Religion in New Canaan, 27 | |
| 2. | Meditating on the Creatures in Early American Life and Letters, 35 |
| Visible Wonders of the Invisible World, 35 | |
| Anne Bradstreet's Meditations on the Creatures, 40 | |
| Ethical Views of “Brute Creation” in Two Quakers: William Bartram and John Woolman, 48 | |
| 3. | Intimations of an Environmental Ethic in the Writings of Jonathan Edwards, 55 |
| From Edwards to Aldo Leopold, 55 | |
| Sacred Grounds of Leopold's Land Ethic, 57 | |
| YES! in Thunder, 60 | |
| The Divine Beauty of Creation, 62 | |
| From Aesthetics to Environmental Ethics: The Nature of True Virtue Applied to Nature, 66 | |
| 4. | “Revelation to US”: Green Shoots of Romantic Religion in Antebellum America, 71 |
| Surveying the Field, 71 | |
| From Reading Nature's Book to Worshipping in God's First Temple: | |
| Bryant and Cooper, 73 | |
| Emerson's Nature, 88 | |
| From Commodity to Cosmos, 90 | |
| Revelation to US: The Primacy of Experience, 94 | |
| Reshaping Nature, 95 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present.
Contributors: John Gatta - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2004.
Page number: xi.
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