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The following is a brief listing of readings related to the subjects of environmentalism, biodiversity, landscape and wilderness, and natural and human ecology, among others. These books, compilations, and periodicals have been helpful to me in my research. I hope this resource will be useful to site visitors. This page will be updated from time-to-time.

Paul Shepard, The Tender Carnivore & The Sacred Game, The University of Georgia Press, 1973, reprinted in 1998.

Paul Shepard, Nature and Madness, The University of Georgia Press, 1982, reprinted in 1998.

Paul Shepard, Thinking Animals, Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence, The University of Georgia Press, 1978, reprinted in 1998.

Mark Hertsgaard, Earth Odyssey, Around The World In Search Of Our Environmental Future, Broadway Books, New York, 1998.

Biodiversity, E.O. Wilson, Editor, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1988.

Norman Crowe, Nature And The Idea Of  A Man-made World, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1885

Bill Devall, George Sessions, Deep Ecology, Living As If Nature Mattered, Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City, 1985.

Wendell Barry, The Unsettling Of America, Culture & Agriculture, Sierra Club Books, 1986.

Neil Evernden, The Social Creation Of Nature, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1992.

Terry G. Gordon and Matti Kaups, The American Backwoods Frontier, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1990.

Barbara C. Matilsky, Fragile Ecologies, Contemporary Artists' Interpretations And Solutions, Rizzoli Press, New York, 1992.

Poisson, Solar Gardening, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, Vermont, 1994.

Moore, Mitchell, Turnbull, The Poetics Of Gardens, MIT Press, Cambridge.

Yves Abrioux, Ian Hamilton Finlay, A Visual Primer, MIT Press, Cambridge.

John Dixon Hunt, Gardens and the Picturesque, Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture, MIT Press, Cambridge.

Ronald Rees, Interior Landscapes, Gardens and the Domestic Environment, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.

Andy Goldsworthy, Hand To Earth, Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture 1976-1990, Harry N. Abrams.

Anne Buttimer, Geography and The Human Spirit, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Cambridge.

Sally McMurry, Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America, The Oxford University Press.

Jens Jensen, Siftings, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.

Irene Diamond, Gloria Feman Orenstein, Reweaving The World, The Emeregence of Ecofeminisim, Sierra Club Books.

Hunt and Willis, Editors, The Genius of the Place, The MIT Press, Cambridge.

Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, The Oxford University Press.