Copyright © 1996, 2014 by Beth Powning.

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An earlier version of this book was originally published in 1996 under the title Seeds of Another Summer.

Epigraphs to “Boundaries” and “Wild Plants” are copyright © 2003 by Gary Snyder from The Practice of the Wild (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2010). Used by permission of Counterpoint.

The epigraph to “Gardens” is from Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

The epigraph to “Fields” is from Wendell Berry, “From the Crest,” in Clearing (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977). Used by permission.

The epigraph to “Trees” is from John Fowles, The Tree (Toronto: Collins, 1979).

The epigraph to “Home” is from Gary Snyder, “Ripples on the Surface,” in No Nature (New York: Pantheon, 1992). Used by permission of the author.

Cover and page design by Julie Scriver.

All photographs by Beth Powning.

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