Prelude
Fugue for six voices
Part I. Talking: The Language of Landscape: 1. The nature of nature
2. Words and weeds
3. Journeys through a landscape
4. On the road to Botany Bay
5. A Snowy River reader
Part II. Perceiving: The Eyes and the Mind: 6. The evolution of perceptual attitudes
7. Eurocentrism and Australian science, some examples
8. Figures in the landscape
9. Dreaming up a rainforest
10. Home thoughts from abroad
Part III. Locating: The Sense of Place: 11. Sense of place
12. The genius loci and the Australian landscape
13. Cuddlepie and other surrogates
14. Jet-set and parish pump
15. Placing the debate
Part IV. Making: Creating Gardens and the Evolution of Styles: 16. The suburban garden in Australia
17. The Australian backyard
18. Gardening across Australia
19. The garden as paradise
Part V. Analysing: Ideologies and Attitudes: 20. The rhetoric and ethics of the environmental protest movement
21. The perfectibility of Nature
Part VI. Sharing and Caring: Ecological Frameworks: 22. Biological pollution
23. The lie of the land
24. Eating the future
25. Felling the 'Groves of Life'
Coda: learning to be at home: 'and then came Venice'.
