ISBN# 978-1-880323-90-8

This a collection of writings about the ideas and concepts that inform the interdisciplinary field of environmental science. The anthology includes 21 thought-provoking selections by writers in diverse disciplines such as ecology, geology, economics, public policy, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy, including

Rules for the Direction of the Mind*

René Descartes

Katahdin*

Henry David Thoreau

Death of a Pine

Henry David Thoreau

Man and Nature*

George Perkins Marsh

The Biosphere*

Vladimir I. Vernadsky

The Climax Concept

Frederic E. Clements

The Ecosystem

A. G. Tansley

The Land Ethic

Aldo Leopold

Odyssey

Aldo Leopold

The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth

Kenneth E. Boulding

The Tragedy of the Commons

Garrett Hardin

The Closing Circle*

Barry Commoner

The World's Biggest Membrane

Lewis Thomas

Intricacy*

Annie Dillard

The Recognition of Gaia*

James E. Lovelock

The End of Nature*

Bill McKibben

The Words Nature, Wild, and Wilderness

Gary Snyder

Water Songs

Terry Tempest Williams

The Politics of Wilderness and the Practice of the Wild

R. Edward Grumbine

Cutover

Jan Zita Grover

Dimensions of Deformity

Gordon L. Miller

*Indicates a selection taken from a longer work.