I want to share with Earth Protect users a list of people and their publications who have inspired me through the years. This is only a partial list - these are the books that I live with, and visit again and again.
Every time I pick up one of these old friends, I find a new angle to marvel about and a new hope about our role on this earth.Read on to find out what inspires me. I hope that maybe one of these individuals will inspire you through their own words.
- “The Legacy of Luna” Julia Hill Butterfly
- “The Cyanide Canary” Joseph Hilldorfer and Robert Dugoni
- “Texas Land Ethics” Pete A.Y. Gunter and Max Oelschlaeger
- “Seeing Things Whole” John Wesley Powell
- “The World Without Us” Alan Weisman
- “In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World” Eliot Porter
- “The Short History of Nearly Everything” Bill Bryson
- “The Future of Life” Edward O. Wilson
- “Rules for Radicals” Saul D. Alinsky
- “Oaxaca Journal” Oliver Sacks
- “Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run” David Brauer
- “Confessions of an Eco-Redneck: Or How I Learned How to Gun-Shoot Trout and Save the Wilderness At the Same Time” Steve Chapple
- “Salt: A World History” Mark Kurlansky
- “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World” Mark Kurlansky
- “Into the Wild” John Krakauer
- “The Map That Changed the World” Simon Winchester
- “Dreamers and Defenders” Douglas H. Strong
- “The Ecology of Commerce” Paul Hawken
- “Practice of the Wild” Gary Snyder
- “Laboratory Earth” Stephen H. Schneider, PhD
- “The Last American Man” Elizabeth Gilbert
- “One Long Argument” Ernst Mayr
- “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things” William McDonough and Michael Braungart
- "Do Something: Leave Your Mark on the World” Anthony Zolezzi and Kory Swanson
- “Lapham’s Quarterly: Book of Nature”, Volume I, Number 3, Summer 2008
- “The Great Naturalists” Robert Huxley, editor
- “The Pioneers” James Fenimore Cooper
- “Civil Disobedience” Henry David Thoreau
- “Leaves of Grass” Walt Whitman
- “Witness: Endangered Species of North America” Susan Middleton and David Liittschwager
- “The Living City” Frank Lloyd Wright
- “The Elegant Universe” Brian Greene
- “Writings on an Ethical Life” Peter Singer
- “The Philosophies of Science” Rom Harre
- “Bioethics” Gilbert Meilaender
- “A History of the Sciences” Stephen F. Mason