With 21 selections from key thinkers in ecology, biology, economics, public policy, sociology, history, philosophy, and literature, Keeping Things Whole draws on writers who have influenced the way we think about our place in the natural world. The anthology is a collection of writings about the ideas and concepts that form the interdisciplinary field of environmental science.
- Rules for the Direction of the Mind*
- Katahdin*
- Death of a Pine
- Man and Nature*
- The Biosphere*
- The Climax Concept
- The Ecosystem
- The Land Ethic
- Odyssey
- The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth
- The Tragedy of the Commons
- The Closing Circle*
- The World's Biggest Membrane
- Intricacy*
- The Recognition of Gaia*
- The End of Nature*
- The Words Nature, Wild, and Wilderness
- Water Songs
- The Politics of Wilderness and the Practice of the Wild
- Cutover
- Dimensions of Deformity
*Indicates a selection taken from a longer work.