The Literature of Nature -- Reading List
This list is a highly personal selection of some of the books about nature and related subjects that I use for inspiration, information and development. Not a comprehensive list!
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Many of the authors listed here have written other works with an environmental focus.
And dozens of superb nature writers who write in languages other than English are not on this list.
The Serpents of Paradise, Edward Abbey, Henry Holt and Co. 1995
A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman, Vintage Books, 1991
The Beauty of the Beastly, Natalie Angier, Houghton Mifflin, 1995
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press, 1976
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard, Harper & Row Perennial Library, 1985, originally published 1974
A Match to the Heart, Gretel Ehrlich, Penguin Books, 1995
Woman and Nature, Susan Griffin, Harper, 1978
Spring in Washington, Louis J. Halle, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988
The Experience of Place, Tony Hiss, Vintage Books, 1991
Women on Hunting, edited by Pam Houston, Ecco Press, 1995
Broadsides from the Other Orders, A Books of Bugs, Sue Hubbell, Random House, 1993
The Mind of the Dolphin, John Cunningham Lilly, Avon Books, 1969
Indian Country, Peter Matthiessen, Penguin Books, 1992
The Way of the Earth, T. C. McLuhan, Simon & Schuster, 1994
Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
One Man’s Garden, Henry Mitchell, Houghton Mifflin, 1992
The Cuiise of the Corwin, John Muir, Sierra Club Books 1993, originally published 1917
Soungbirds, Truffles, and Wolves, Gary Paul Nabhan, Penguin, 1993
Spiritual Ecology, A Guide to Reconnecting with Nature, Jim Nollman, Bantam Books, 1990
Why We Garden, Jim Nollman, Henry Hold and Co. 1994
Who Speaks for Earth, edited by Maurice F. Strong, W. W. Norton & Co. 1973
Earthly Pleasures, Roger B. Swain, Charles Scribners, 1981
Life and Death of the Salt Marsh, John and Mildred Teal, Ballantine Books, 1971
Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas,
Walden and Other Writings, Henry David Thoreau, Bantam, 1961, originally self-published, 1853
Letters from the Earth, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)Fawcett, 1962, originally published 1938
Beautiful Swimmers, William W. Warner, Penguin, 1976
Onward and Upward in the Garden, Katharine S. White, Farar, Straus, Giroux, 1979, originally pub. 1958
Naturalist, Edward O. Wilson, Island Press, 1994
