David Archer, The Long Thaw.

Mary Austin, Land of Little Rain.

Gaston Bachelard, The New Scientific Spirit.

David Bainbridge, The X in Sex.

Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature.

William Blake, The Tiger.

Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. Film Art.

C. A. Bowers, Mindful Conservatism.

T. C. Boyle, When the Killing's Done.

Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values, & The Ascent of Man.

William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis.

Fritjof Capra. The Web of Life.

Archie Carr, Naturalist in Florida.

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.

Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Gale Christianson, Greenhouse.

Michael Conzen, The Making of the American Landscape

Alfred Crosby, The Columbian Exchange.

Alfred Crosby, Germs,Seeds, and Animals: Studies in Ecological History.

Herman Daly, The Common Good.

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (notes)

Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale

       The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.

Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

W. E. B. DuBois

René Dubose, Man Adapting, & The White Plague.

Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Times.

Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory

Anne & Paul Ehrlich, Dominant Animal.

William Faulkner, The Bear.

Richard Feynman, On Doubt.

Nancy Folbre, Greed, Lust and Gender.

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash.

Galileo Galilei,

Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences.

Clifford Geertz, Interpretations of Culture.

Ross Gelbspan, Boiling Point.

Murray Gell-Mann, The Quark and the Jaguar.

Clarence Glacken. Traces on the Rhodian Shore, 1967.

Ursula Goodenough, The Sacred Depths of Nature.

William Greider, Come Home America.

James Hansen, warns, Climate Change 2006.

Garrett Hardin, Filters Against Folly.

Garrett Hardin, Tragedy of the Commons.

Simon Head, Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans.

Earnest Hemingway, Big Two Hearted River.

T. E. Hulme's view on art & language,

Norris Hundley, Jr., The Great Thirst.

Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth.

Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow

J. B. Jackson, A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time.

Michio Kaku, Beyond Einstein.
. . . . . . . . . . , Einstein's Cosmos.
. . . . . . . . . . , Hyperspace.
. . . . . . . . . . , Visions.

Martin Kemp, Visualization, The nature book of Art and Science

Robert F. Kennedy, Crimes Against Nature.

Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine.

Benjamin Kline, Once Along the River.

Thomas Kuhn, On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

George Lakoff, The Polictical Mind.

Kai Lee, Compass and the Gyroscope.

Aldo Leopold, Round River, Sand County Almanac.

Richard Lewontin, The Triple Helix.

Larry Lohmann, Carbon Trading

James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia

Ian McHarg, Design with Nature

Bill McKibben, Death of Nature

Ernst Mayr, One Long Argument

Carolyn Merchant, Ecological Revolutions

John Hansen Mitchell, Walking towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place.

G. Tyler Miller, Environmental Science

Oliver Morgan, Eating the Sun

Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades.

Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power; the Myth of the Machine

Norman Myers, in "Nature’s Powerhouse"

the necessity of tropical forests, trees, fungi, soil and climate.

Frederick L. Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States.

David Orr, Ecological Literacy

Arnold Pacey, Meaning in Technology

. . . . . . . . . . . , Technology in World Civilization

Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude: Contents

. . . . . . . . . . . , The Monkey Grammarian

Carroll Pursell: White Heat

Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert

Adam Rome, Bulldozer in the Countryside

Joseph J. Romm, Language Intelligence

Simon Schama, An Embarrassment of Riches

Schmidt, & Wolf, Climate Change: Picturing the Science

Carle E. Schorske, Fin-de-Siécle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Paul Shepard, Coming Home to the Pleistocene

Neil Shubin, The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body

Joseph Siry, Marshes of the Ocean Shore

Charles Percy Snow, The Two Cultures

Susan Sontag, -- The Pain of Others

Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream

Wallace Stevens

Bryan Sykes, The Seven Daughters of Eve

Lewis Thomas, The Lives of the Cell

Ian Tattersall, Monkey in the Mirror

Sim Van der Ryn, Ecological Design

Derek Walcott, The Antilles

Laura Dawson Walls, Seeing New Worlds.

Peter Ward & Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe.

James Watson, The Double Helix

Spencer Weart, The Discovery of Global Warming

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Terry Tempest Williams, The Open Space of Democracy, An Unspoken Hunger.

Edward O. Wilson, Diversity of Life

. . . . . . . . . . . . . , The Future of Life.

Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire

This fossil clam (lower right, along the crack) was found over 2000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, in the Santa Ynez Mountains, in Southern California.