Nature Conservation


A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Silent Spring
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Desert Solitaire
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
Into the Wild
The Wolf
Walden or, Life in the Woods
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Conservation is in a bad way because it has failed to see the whole of communities and the many concentric circles of wholes they contain; it has failed to see that management is a partnership based in community and not a dictatorship based in control; and, if I can go this far, it has failed because it never learned how to stop, to see, and to speak the language of the wind—it has never learned to be wild like flowers.
Daniel Firth Griffith, Wild Like Flowers

Garry Rogers
We cannot seem to help ourselves they said. Thus, the hominid spark of intelligence flares, burns everything around it, and fades. Some humans will survive the great conflagration. Thus, begins an endless cycle of destruction spiraling downward until our species is gone. We can hope that before the sun begins to become unstable (it is about half way there now) evolution can produce a new and better intelligence that will have sufficient breadth and depth to understand the ecological consequences ...more
Garry Rogers

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