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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: The Ecology of Imagination -- NOTES -- 1 NGORONGORO: Primeval Past as Living Present -- 2 AFRICA: Three Landscapes as a Single Organism -- I. THE ORGANISM CONCEPT APPLIED TO LANDSCAPE AND CONTINENT -- II. THE LANDSCAPES OF AFRICA -- III. SUMMARY. HUMANKIND AND THE FUTURE OF THE AFRICAN LANDSCAPE -- 3 RAINFORESTS: What Do Rainforests Have to Do with Us? -- GLOBAL THINKING-GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY -- MONOTONY IN GREEN -- MORPHOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE -- A GIANT ORGANISM IN DECLINE? -- IS REJUVENATION POSSIBLE? -- 4 HUMANKIND AND NATURE: Humankind and Nature in Different Cultures and Continents -- SOUTH AMERICA: An Impoverished Land of Homeless People -- SRI LANKA: Original Oneness of Culture and Nature -- DEMETRIA: A Model for Restoring Life to Depleted Soil -- 5: Juvenilization in Evolution and Its Ecological Significance -- PARALLELS IN THE PLANT KINGDOM -- JUVENILIZATION IN THE ANGIOSPERMOUS FLOWERING PLANTS -- THE ANTICIPATORY NATURE OF NEOTENY -- ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF JUVENILIZATION -- 6 NEW ZEALAND: Old Land, Young Land -- GLOBAL CONNECTIONS -- STREAMS OF LIFE -- HOW DID ELEMENTS OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE END UP IN THE SOUTHERN ONE? -- THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONNECTION -- BEECH GROVES AND TROPICAL RAINFORESTS -- THE "COLD TROPICS" OF NEW ZEALAND -- THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOUTHERN OCEANS -- BIROS IN PLACE OF MAMMALS -- FLOWERS WITHOUT COLORS -- PRIMEVAL VEGETATIVE ABUNDANCE -- NEW ZEALAND: RESERVOIR OF FORMATIVE POTENTIAL FORTHE FUTURE? -- HUMANKIND AS DESTROYER AND AS AGENT OF FURTHER EVOLUTION -- FUTURE DEVELOPMENT? -- 7 THE GREAT RIFT VALLEYS: The Signature of the Great Rift Valleys -- PARALLELS IN THE HISTORY OF EARTH AND HUMANITY -- THE AFRICAN-MIDDLE EASTERN-EUROPEAN RIFT SYSTEM -- PARALLELS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARTH AND HUMANITY -- OTHER RIFT-VALLEY SYSTEMS AND THE BAIKAL REGION.