Literature and the environment: a reader on nature and culture

The human animal. Our animal selves. The honey tree / Mary Oliver

Living like weasels / Annie Dillard

Irregular flight / Kent Nelson

from The etiquette of freedom / Gary Snyder

Song of the taste / Gary Snyder

La mariposa, butterfly woman / Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Collecting myself / Lester Rowntree

The erotic landscape / Terry Tempest Williams

To build a fire / Jack London

Of hawks and men : a weekend in the male wilderness / Jon Tevlin

Solitude / Henry David Thoreau

O rotten Gotham / Tom Wolfe

Knot / Pattiann Rogers

Close encounters. Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov

A blessing / James Wright

I think I could turn and live with animals / Walt Whitman

The crow in the woods / John Updike

A city person encountering nature / Maxine Hong Kingston

Crab-boil / Rita Dove

Apologia / Barry Lopez

Traveling through the dark / William Stafford

The creatures on my mind / Ursula K. Le Guin

Just like us? / Harper's Forum

In the abode of the snows / Pat Murphy

Story from bear country / Leslie Marmon Silko

Muddy prints on mohair / Peter Coyote

Hunting and fishing. A dog sleeping on my feet / James Dickey

The willingness of a deer to die / Wintu tribe

The gifts / Richard K. Nelson

The buck / Joyce Carol Oates

from Fellow creatures / Paul Shepard

The hunt / Susan Griffin

Thinking like a mountain / Aldo Leopold

A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett

Fight with a 20-pound trout / Ernest Hemingway

The fish / Elizabeth BIshop.

Inhabiting place. Imprint of the land. Incarnation / Kenneth Rexroth

The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes

Touching the earth / bell hooks

What holds the water, what holds the light / Linda Hogan

Sonora Desert poem / Lucille Clifton

A wind-storm in the forests / John Muir

A blizzard under blue sky / Pam Houston

The snow man / Wallace Stevens

Forever / Simon J. Ortiz

Alone on a mountaintop / Jack Kerouac

The memory place / Barbara Kingsolver

The walling of awareness / Jerry Mander

The secret lion / Alberto Ríos

Haciendo apenas la recolección / Tino Villanueva

Visions of home. Stay home / Wendell Berry

On a scrap of land in Henry County / Carol Polsgrove

Living by life : some bioregional theory and practice / Jim Dodge

Where you at? A bioregional quiz / Leonard Charles, Jim Dodge, Lynn Milliman, and Victoria Stockley

The flora and fauna of Las Vegas / Ellen Meloy

On Willow Creek / Rick Bass

A word in favor of rootlessness / John Daniel

What's in Alaska? / Raymond Carver

Nature / Luther Standing Bear

Rock garden / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Curandera / Pat Mora

Second chance at paradise / William Kittredge

Buckeye / Scott Russell Sanders

The gift outright / Robert Frost

Politics of place. Long division : a tribal history / Wendy Rose

This place / Beth Brant

Exile : El Paso, Texas / Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Black women and the wilderness / Evelyn C. White

Sorrow home / Margaret Walker

Building a more inclusive environmental movement / Running-Grass

Alien soil / Jamaica Kincaid

Eminent domain : a love story / Dan O'Brien

The world according to Cushman / Margaret L. Knox

Eco-defense / Edward Abbey

The clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams.

Economy and ecology. Getting and spending. The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth

Assembly line / B. Traven

Work we hate and dreams we love / Jimmy Santiago Baca

"Take this job and shove it" / Theodore Roszak

The conundrum of consumption / Alan Thein Durning

We alone / Alice Walker

Living lightly and inconsistently on the land / Donella Meadows

A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg

Harvest / Meridel LeSueur

A good scythe / Wendell Berry

On human connectedness with nature / Martin W. Lewis

Land use. Sand roads : the development / Marge Piercy

Line of credit / Louise Erdrich

Confessions of a developer / Wallace Kaufman

A brook in the city / Robert Frost

A woman's land / Sallie Bingham

from An island / John McPhee

Rain at night / W.S. Merwin

The physics of beauty / Sharman Apt Russell

The environmental mindset / Rush Limbaugh III

WIlderness letter / Wallace Stegner

The American Indian wilderness / Louis Owens

Peril and response. Tar / C.K. Williams

The last antelope / Mary Austin

World scientists' warning to humanity / Union of Concerned Scientists

The end is not at hand / Robert J. Samuelson

Not so fast / Bill McKibben

Are people an environmental pollution? / Julian L. Simon

Passenger pigeons / Robinson Jeffers

Of man and the stream of time / Rachel Carson

Baring the atom's mother heart / Marilou Awiakta

Devil deer / Rudolfo Anaya

The circle is the way to see / Joseph Bruchac

Renewing the earth / U.S. Bishops.