CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Prologue: Homo indoorus

1 Wonder

2 The Hot Spring in the Basement

3 Seeing in the Dark

4 Absence as a Disease

5 Bathing in a Stream of Life

6 The Problem with Abundance

7 The Farsighted Ecologist

8 What Good Is a Camel Cricket?

9 The Problem with Cockroaches Is Us

10 Look What the Cat Dragged In

11 Gardening the Bodies of Babies

12 The Flavor of Biodiversity

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Rob Dunn

Notes

Index