1. FASCINATING INSIGHTS INTO THE NATURAL WORLD:
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Lewis Thomas.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard. (Harper). winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
The Home Planet, edited by Kevin Kelly (Addison Wesley). Powerful photographs of the earth from space with quotations of astronauts from many nations.
The Immense Journey, Loren Eiseley (Vintage).
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, David Abram (Pantheon).
The Unexpected Universe, by Loren Eiseley (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich).
The Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas (Bantam New Age Books).
What Is Life? Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan (Simon and Schuster). Intriguing revelations about many living organisms.
2. CARING FOR THE EARTH:
Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential; Barbara Marx Hubbard (The World Library).
Earth Community, Earth Ethics; Larry Rasmussen (Orbis Books).
Ecology and Justice Series of books: you can get their catalog from Orbis Books, phone 800/258-5838.
How Much Is Enough? The Consumer Society & the Future of the Earth, Alan Thein Durning (WW. Norton & Company).
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability; Paul Hawken (Harper).
*** The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation, by the Findhorn Community (HarperPerennial). Nature spirits reveal themselves and their work.
The Silent Spring, Rachel Carson.
The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology; Theodore Roszak (Simon and Schuster).
Thinking like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings; John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, Arne Naess (New Society Publishers).
3. THE EVOLUTION OF EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE; THE NEW COSMOLOGY:
A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us; Sidney Liebes, Elisabet Sahtouris, and Brian Swimme (John Wiley and Sons). Abundant text,detailed captions and stunning images of every phase of earth's evolution.
Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology, A. Lonergan & C. Richards (Twenty Third Publications).
The Universe Is a Green Dragon: a Cosmic Creation Story, Brian Swimme (Bear and Co.).
Gaia, the Human Journey from Chaos to Cosmos, Elisabet Sahtouris and Brian Swimme (Pocket Books). The ultimate book bout the universe for advanced students.
4. THE EARTH, SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND SPIRITUALITY:
Befriending the Earth: a Theology of Reconciliation Between Humans and the Earth, Thomas Berry with Thomas Clarke, SJ (23rd Publications).
Christian Faith and the Environment: Making Vital Connections; Brennan R. Hill (Orbis Books).
Earth Age: A New Vision of God, the Human and the Earth; Lorna Green (Paulist Press).
Earthspirit: a Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Christianity, Michael Dowd (Twenty Third Publications).
How the Wild Things Pray, William Cleary (Forest of Peace Publishing).
Blessing, Matthew Fox. A classic text.
Quantum Theology, Diarmuid O'Murchu.
***Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Ursula King (Orbis Press).
Reclaiming Spirituality, Diarmuid O'Murchu.
Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation; John F. Haught(Paulist).
Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature; Sallie McFague (Fortress Press).
The Greening of the Church, Sean McDonagh (Orbis Books).
The Lively Garden Prayer Book, William Cleary (Forest of Peace Pub.)
The Promise of Nature: Ecology and Cosmic Purpose; John F. Haught (Paulist Press).
To Care for the Earth: a Call to a New Theology, Sean McDonagh (Bear & Co.).
5. FEMINISM, ECOLOGY, AND SPIRITUALITY:
A Feeling for the Organism: the Life and Work of Barbara Mcclintock; Evelyn Fox Keller.
Death of Nature: Women, Ecology & the Scientific Revolution; Carolyn Merchant (Harper & Row).
If Women Counted: a New Feminist Economics; Marilyn Waring (Harper & Row).
Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing, Rosemary Radford Ruether (Harper, San Francisco).
Healing the Wounds: the Promise of Ecofeminism, Judith Plant, (New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, PA).
Sisters of the Earth, Lorraine Anderson, Editor, (Vintage Books).
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, Vandana Shiva (Zed Books).
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler (Harper & Row).
Woman and Nature: the Roaring Inside Her, Susan Griffin.
Women, Earth and Creator Spirit, Elizabeth A. Johnson; (68 pages, Paulist Press).
Women, the Earth, the Divine, Eleanor Rae, (Orbis Books, New York)
6. SPECIAL BOOKS FOR ADVANCED READERS:
A History of God, Karen Armstrong.
A Theology for the Earth: The Contributions of Thomas Berry and Bernard Lonergan; Anne Marie Dalton.
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Matthew Fox (Harper and Row).
The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World, Charlene Spretnak (Addison-Wesley).
Worldviews and Ecology, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim Bucknell).