Text and accompanying photographs discuss how people have polluted the environment, threatened animals with extinction, exhausted natural resources. Suggests environmental projects for individuals and groups to maintain and protect the natural world.
This Otoe Indian legend explains how, after a magically harmonious period in the world when Man and the animals lived in peace, Man changed and became abusive, so that only Dog and Horse have remained close.
An environmental history of the Nashua River, from its discovery by Indians through the polluting years of the Industrial Revolution to the ambitious clean-up that revitalized it.
Describes the conditions in the Amazon rain forest, the animals, plants, and people that live there, the exploitation of this ecosystem, and the importance of preserving it.
