Resources

we love

Books

  • At Home on the Earth, Becoming Native to Our Place, A Multicultural Anthology edited by David Landis Barnhill

  • Biomimicry, Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus

  • Colors of Nature: Alison Denning

  • Black Faces, White Spaces, Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney

  • Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage by Diane D. Glave

  • The Forest Unseen, A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell

  • A Beginners Faith in Things Unseen by John Hay

  • The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham

  • The Adventure Gap, Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Edward Mills

  • Why I Wake Early, New Poems by Mary Oliver (and pretty much anything else she wrote)

  • Staying Put, Making a Home in a Restless World by Scott Russell Sanders

  • Trace, Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy

  • The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder

  • Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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