Berry, Wendell. 1977. The Unsettling of America. New York: Avon Books. A poetic and passionate critique of what agricultural mechanization is doing to rural culture and the land.

Bullard, Robert D., ed. 1993. Confronting Environmental Racism. Boston: South End Press. An excellent collection of essays on environmental justice.

Bullard, Robert D. (May) 1994. "Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decision Making," Environment 36(4):10-20. Documents a disproportionate number of landfills, toxic waste dumps, and noxious industries in communities of color.

Compolo, Tony. 1992. How to Rescue the Earth Without Worshiping Nature: A Christian's Call to Save Creation. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. An interesting perspective on nature and religion.

Deval, Bill. 1988. Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology. A guide for living in harmony with our environment.

Dubos, Rene. 1968. So Human an Animal. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Pulitzer Prize-winning reflections by a genial humanist about what it means to be human.

Evernden, Neil. 1992. The Social Creation of Nature. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Argues that "nature" is as much a social entity as a physical one.

Hofrichter, Richard, ed. 1993. Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers. Articles by leading theorists and activists on environmental justice.

Kothari, Smithu, and P. Prajuli. 1993. "No Nature Without Social Justice: A Plea for Cultural and Ecological Pluralism in India," in W. Sachs, ed. Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict. London: Zed Books, 237-252. Until basic survival needs are met, people will never support nature protection.

Kropotkin, Peter. Fields, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow. First published by Houghton, Mifflin in 1899. Reprinted in 1985 by Freedom Press, London. A compelling case for communitarian utopianism that influenced Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mumford.

Merchant, Carolyn. 1989. Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. An exploration of the ecological transformation that took place in New England as European settlers took control of the land and what that reveals about the environmental values of native and Western cultures.

Nash, Roderick F. 1989. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. A good summary of ideology and philosophy of environmentalism.

Passmore, John. 1974. Responsibility for Nature. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. A rare humanist perspective on man's environmental ethics.

Plant, Judith, ed. 1989. Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism. Santa Cruz, CA: New Society Publishers. See articles by Ynestra King, Ursula K. LeGuin, Vandang Shiva, Starhawk, Charlene Spretnak, Rosemary Ruether, Joanna Macy, and others.

Reed, Peter, and David Rothenberg. 1993. Wisdom in the Open Air. The life and work of noted Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess.

Rockefeller, Steven C., and John C. Elder. 1992. Spirit and Nature: Why the Environment Is a Religious Issue--AnInterfaith Dialogue. Boston: Beacon Press. Leaders from many different religious traditions discuss our responsibilities to nature. Included are: Iriquois elder Audrey Shenandoah, Jewish theologian Ismar Schorsch, Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein, and His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, among others.

Rothenberg, David. 1993. Is It Painful To Think? Conversations with Arne Naess. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. A series of conversations with the eminent Norwegian philosopher who coined the term "deep ecology."

Sauer, Peter, ed. 1992. Finding Home: Writing on Nature and Culture from Orion Magazine. Articles by writers such as David Ehrenfeld, Barry Lopez, Gary Nabham, Terry Tempest Williams, Ann Zwinger, and others explore meaning and nature.

Schumacher, E. F. 1973. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. London: Blond and Briggs. An eloquent, groundbreaking introduction of Buddhist economics and appropriate technology.

Taylor, Paul W. 1986. Respect for Nature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. A highly readable environmental ethics text.

Tuan, Yi Fu. 1974. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values. New York: Prentice Hall. A literate comparison of different cultures in time and place and their attitudes toward self and nature.

Warren, Karen J., ed. 1991. Ecological Feminism. A special issue of the feminist journal Hypatia, volume 6(1). See articles by Karen Warren, Val Plumwood, and Deborah Slicer.

Wenz, P. S. 1988. Environmental Justice. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. An important exploration of the philosophical bases for environmental justice.