A Language Older Than Words: What We Leave Behind /
Derrick Jensen.
Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium
to the Calcaneum / Gavin Francis.
Alaska's Changing Arctic: Ecological Consequences for
Tundra, Streams, and Lakes / John E. Hobble and George W. Kling.
Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental
Tradition / Aaron Sachs.
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? /
Frans de Waal.
Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World /
Sam Droege and Laurence Packer.
Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide /
Charles Foster.
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel / Carl Safina.
Birdology: Adventures with Hip Hop Parrots, Cantankerous
Cassowaries, Crabby Crows, Peripatetic Pigeons, Hens, Hawks, and Hummingbirds /
Sy Montgomery.
Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island /
Deborah Rivel and Kellye Rosenheim.
Butterflies / Photos by Thomas Marent; text by Ronald
Orenstein.
City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago
Wilderness / U. of Chicago Press.
David Brower: The Making of the Environmental Movement /
Tom Turner, foreword by Bill McKibben.
Dirt: A Love Story / Fore Edge Books.
Evolution: The Whole Story / Steve Parker, general
editor.
Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City /
Leslie Day; illus. by Trudy Smoke, photos by Beth Bergman, foreword by Don
Riepe.
Firefly Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians, third,
expanded edition / Chris Mattinson, editor.
George Washington, Written Upon the Land: Nature, Memory,
Myth & Landscape / Philip Levy.
Global Weirding (a Z Reader on the Environment) / Edited
by Lydia Sargent.
Goddess / Cleb Cain Marcus. (Ganges shore photographs)
Guide to the Birds of Alaska, 6th edition / Robert
Armstrong.
Herbs and the Earth: An Evocative Excursion into the Lure
and Legend of Our Common Herbs / Henry Beston.
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape.
How Animals Grieve / Barbara J. King
Hyper Nature / Photos by Philippe Martin.
Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain / Michael Light. (aerial
photography)
Landmarks / Robert Macfarlane.
Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of
Food in America / Liz Carlisle.
Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
/ Bruce Watson.
Lions in the Balance: Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with
Guns / Craig Packer.
Mr. Green Jeans / Chris S. McGee (cli-fi, climate
fiction).
Nature Wars / Jim Sterba.
North of Hope: Daughter's Arctic Journey / Shannon
Huffman Poison.
Nuclear Fear: A History of Images / Spencer Weart.
On the Natural History of Destruction / W.G. Sebald.
Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Search for Sustainable Meat /
Barry Estabrook.
Rails of the World: A Monograph of the Family Rallidae /
S. Dillon Ripley, paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne.
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History / Cynthia Barnett.
Righting America at the Creation Museum / Susan L.
Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr.
Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in
the Age of Man / Jason Mark.
Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English
/ John R. Stilgoe.
Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace / Sue Thomas.
That Tree: An iPhone Photo Journal Documenting a Year in
the Life of a Lonely Bur Oak / Mark Hirsch.
The Arctic Regions / William Bradford. (illustrated with
photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland)
The Ash Tree / Oliver Rackham.
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
/ Casper Henderson.
The Book of Frogs: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred
Species from around the World / Tim Hallliday
The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life /
Jack Challoner.
The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to
Intelligent Design / Ronald L. Numbers.
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins / Hal Whitehead
and Luke Rendell.
The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban
Imagination / Matthew Gandy.
The Fate of the Earth / Jonathan Schell.
The Green Thoreau: America's First Environmentalist on
Technology, Possessions, Livelihood, and More / Carol Spenard LaRusso, editor.
The Grid and the River: Philadelphia's Green Places,
1682-1876 / Elizabeth Milroy.
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National
Parks. Terry Tempest Williams.
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New
World / Andrea Wulf.
The Last Unicorn: A Search For One of Earth's Rarest
Creatures / William DeBuys.
The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of
Their Lives / Jessica Pierce.
The Living Bird: 100 Years of Listening to Nature / The
Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Photos by Gerrit Vyn; foreword by Barbara
Kingsolver.
The Myth of Human Supremacy / Derrick Jensen.
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, An Ancient Crab, An Epic
Journey / Deborah Cramer.
The New Bread Basket / Chelsea Green Publications.
The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, and
Biology, and How They Change Our Lives / Stephen Buchmann.
The Right to Stay Home / David Bacon.
The Seasons on Henry's Farm / Terra Brockman.
The Sharks of North America / Jose I. Castro.
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the
Wonder of Consciousness / Sy Montgomery.
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the
World / Trevor Cox.
Tropical Fruits and Other Edible Plants of the World: An
Illustrated Guide / Rolf Blancke.
Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Theodore Rousseau /
Scott Allan and Edouard Kopp.
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting
World of Dolphins / Susan Casey.
Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call
to Save Natural Soundscapes / Bernie Krause.
Walden / Henry D. Thoreau (edited by J. Lyndon Shanley;
intro. by John Updike).
We Are as Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the
Quest for a New America / Kate Daloz.
Welcome to Subirdia / John M. Marzluff.
Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises: A Natural History and
Species Guide / Annalisa Berta.
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater
Cousins / Jonathan Balcombe.
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? : The Epic Saga of
the Bird That Powers Civilization / Andrew Lawler.
Wilderness and the American Mind / Roderick Nash.
Postscript:
Focus here
is on The Fight for Beauty: Our Path to a Better Future / Fiona Reynolds. Ms.
Reynolds quotes the 19th-century environmentalist John Muir (founder of the
Sierra Club) saying: "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread."
And
furthermore, for Muir the fight for beauty is "not blind opposition to
progress, but opposition to blind progress."
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Mr. Ochs writes this column from Williamsport PA. Thanks to H.Y. for technical assistance.
