Earth Protect Blog

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