Voice for Earth American writers respond to the Earth Charter

Includes bibliographical references.

Imagination into principle -- Crafting principles for the Earth Charter / Steven C. Rockefeller -- The Earth Charter -- Principle into imagination : literary responses to the Earth Charter -- Owning the imperatives : a poem for the Earth Charter / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Learning to see the stars : the Earth Charter as a compass for the new century / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Remembering the ancient path : the original instructions and the Earth Charter / Chief Jake Swamp -- Lake Conestee / John Lane -- Restoration : a plan / Rick Bass -- Wilderness as a Sabbath for the land / Scott Russell Sanders -- Who / Robert Michael Pyle -- Broad water, distant land / Stuart Ching -- Possibility begins here / Lauret Savoy -- Hope for democracy / Janisse Ray -- Imagination and principle into a new ethic -- The ethic of care / Leonardo Boff, translated by Philip Berryman -- Afterword / Kamla Chowdhry.