| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| 1. | How Our First Ancestors Lived | 1 |
| 2. | How Our Needs Differ from Those of the First Men | 9 |
| 3. | The Earth as It Was Before the Coming of Civilized Men | 18 |
| 4. | Nature's Unequal Distribution of Her Gifts | 25 |
| 5. | The Land of the Poor People | 32 |
| 6. | What the Muddy Rivulet Has to Say | 39 |
| 7. | How Far Will Nature Restore Her Wasted Gifts? | 44 |
| 8. | The Soil—The Most Important Gift of Nature | 51 |
| 9. | Things of Which Soil Is Made | 57 |
| 10. | How the Soil Is Made | 61 |
| 11. | How Vegetation Holds the Soil | 67 |
| 12. | What Happens Where There Is No Protecting Carpet of Vegetation | 73 |
| 13. | The Use and Care of Water | 81 |
| 14. | Could We Get Along without the Trees? | 89 |
| 15. | Where Has Nature Spread the Forest? | 96 |
| 16. | What Are the Enemies of the Trees? | 104 |
| 17. | How the Forests Are Wasted | 112 |
| 18. | How the Forests Suffer from Fires | 119 |
| 19. | Evils that Follow the Destruction of the Forests | 125 |
| 20. | How Our Government Is Helping to Save the Forests | 130 |
| 21. | Our Forest Playgrounds | 139 |
| 22. | What Is Happening to the Wild Flowers | 144 |
| 23. | Nature's Penalty for Interfering with Her Arrangements | 150 |
| 24. | What Shall We Do When the Coal, Oil, and Gas Are Gone? | 155 |
| 25. | Need for Protection of Creatures That Live in the Water | 162 |
| 26. | Man More Destructive than the Other Animals | 171 |
| 27. | What Is Happening to the Animals and Birds | 176 |
| 28. | The Tragedies of Milady's Hat and Cape | 183 |
| 29. | The Court of the Animals and Birds | 188 |
| 30. | The Birds Our Good Friends and Pleasant Companions | 195 |
| 31. | How to Bring the Wild Creatures Back Again | 203 |
| Index | 213 |
