Reading the Work
These books are not so much references as companions.
Drawn from fields including ecological humanities, Indigenous knowledge systems, anthropology, biology, philosophy, and speculative fiction, this living library stretches and enlivens my practice.
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The Heart of Tracking: Inner and Outer Practices of Nature Awareness
Richard VachaWhat the Robin Knows
Jon YoungBeing Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
Martin Lee MuellerThus Spoke the Plant
Monica GaglianoTo Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision
Diana Beresford-KroegerFinding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne SimardEntangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Merlin SheldrakeThe Light Eaters
Zoë SchlangerMatter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
Andreas WeberMeeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
Karen BaradWays of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
James Bridle
Elementals
(5 Volume Set), edited by Gavin Van Horn & Bruce Jennings, series editors. Nickole Brown & Craig Santos Perez, poetry editors. -
Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Trees, and Ancestors
Greg SarrisBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants
Robin Wall KimmererKinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (5-Volume Set)
Edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John HausdoerfferBeing Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
Martin Lee MuellerFresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science
Jessica HernandezSand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Tyson YunkaportaRight Story, Wrong Story: How to Tell the Difference
Tyson YunkaportaDesigns for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David AbramBecoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
David AbramCorrespondences
Tim IngoldHow Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Eduardo KohnThe Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna TsingFeral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
Edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei ZhouStaying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Donna HarawayDark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
Timothy MortonHyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Timothy MortonBelievers: Making a Life at the End of the World
Lisa WellsThe Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
Jeremy LentThe Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
Jeremy LentWhy We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming
Kimerer LaMotheThe Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
Cal FlynThe Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Jake BittleWhat If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures
Ayana Elizabeth JohnsonThe Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
Greg KingThe Last Fire Season
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Island Zombie: Iceland Writings
Roni HornOrwell’s Roses
Rebecca SolnitThe Language of Trees
Katie HoltenOld Growth: The Best Writing about Trees from Orion Magazine
Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic
Lisa E. Bloom -
Stolen
Ann-Helén LaestadiusThe Last Animal
Ramona AusubelNorth Woods
Daniel MasonThe Island of Missing Trees
Elif ShafakThe Overstory
Richard PowersPlayground
Richard PowersHummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeerWhen We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín LabatutParable of the Sower
Octavia E. ButlerThe Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley RobinsonSun House
David James DuncanOrbital
Samantha HarveyWandering Stars
Tommy OrangeThe Every
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H is for Hawk
Helen MacdonaldFox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
Catherine RavenRaising Hare
Chloe DaltonAlfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
Carl SafinaWhat the Robin Knows
Jon YoungIs a River Alive?
Robert MacfarlaneAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver