Readings in Ecology and Natural History

Abbey, Edward
Desert Solitaire

Ackerman, Diane
The Rarest of the Rare

Adamson, Joy
Born Free

Agassiz, Louis

Aristotle
The History of Animals
On the Gait of Animals
On the Motion of Animals
On the Parts of Animals

Attenborough, David
Life on Earth
The Living Planet

Austin, Mary
The Land of Little Rain

Bartram, William
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws; containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together With Observations on the Manners of the Indians
Observations on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matters worthy of notice made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania [sic] to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada

Bass, Rick
Winter Notes From Montana

Beebe, William
"12 Rules for Observing Wild Birds and Animals in the Forest"
The Book of Naturalists: An Anthology of the Best Natural History (ed. by Beebe)

Borland, Hal
Homeland From the Country
Our Natural World (ed. by Borland)

Bown, Stephen R.
The Naturalists: Scientific Travelers in the Golden Age of Natural History

Burroughs, John
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
Wake-Robin

Carson, Rachel
The Edge of the Sea
The Sea Around Us
Under the Sea Wind

Cooper, Susan Fenimore
Rural Hours

Corbett, Jim
Maneaters of Kumaon

Cousteau, Jacques-Yves and Phlippe Diole
Three Adventures: Galapagos-Titicaca-The Blue Holes
The Silent World

Darwin, Charles
Voyage of the Beagle
On the Origin of Species

Dillard, Annie
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Eiseley, Loren
The Immense Journey
The Star Thrower

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"Nature"

Fabre, Jean Henri
Fabre's Book of Insects
Bramblebees and Others
The Life of the Caterpillar
The Life of the Fly
The Life of the Spider
The Mason-Bees
More Hunting Wasps
Story Book of Science
The Wonders of Instinct
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Finch, Robert; and John Elder, eds.
The Norton Book of Nature Writing

Goodall, Jane
In the Shadow of Man

Gould, Stephen Jay
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Herriot, James
All Creatures Great and Small The Best of James Herriot

Hooke, Robert

Junger, Sebastian
The Perfect Storm

Krakauer, Jon
Into Thin Air

Kricher, John
A Neotropical Companion

Kurlansky, Mark
Cod

Leopold, Aldo
Excerpts from his writings
A Sand County Almanac

Lopez, Barry
"A Literature of Place"
"The Language of Animals"
Arctic Dreams

Lorenz, Konrad Z.
King Solomon's Ring

Lucretius
The Nature of the Universe
On the Nature of Things

Matthiessen, Peter
African Silences
Sand Rivers
The Snow Leopard
The Wind Birds

McPhee, John
Annals of the Former World
Coming Into the Country

Mill, John Stuart
"On Nature"

Muir, John
The Mountains of California
My First Summer in the Sierra
Our National Parks
Steep Trails
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf
Travels in Alaska
The Yosemite
"Snow Storm on Mount Shasta"
"Wild Wool"

Nash, Roderick
Wilderness and the American Mind

O'Brien, Dan
Equinox
The Rites of Autumn

O'Hanlon, Redmond
No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo

Olson, Sigurd F.
The Singing Wilderness

Ondaatje, Chrstopher
Journey to the Source of the Nile

Peterson, Roger Tory and James Fisher
Wild America

Pliny the Elder
Natural History

Ruskin, John
The True and the Beautiful

Scheffer, Victor B.
The Year of the Whale

Seton, Ernest Thompson
Wild Animals at Home

Sharp, Dallas
The Lay of the Land

Stouffer, Marty
Marty Stouffer's Wild America (book)

Teale, Edwin Way
North With the Spring
Journey Into Summer
Autumn Across America
Wandering Though Winter

Thomas, Lewis
The Lives of a Cell
The Medusa and the Snail

Thoreau, Henry David
"Walking"
Walden

Tinbergen, Niko
Curious Naturalists

Van Dover, Cindy Lee
The Octopus's Garden: Hydrothermal Vents and Other Mysteries of the Deep Sea

Warner, William W.
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

White, Gilbert
Natural History of Selborne

Williamson, Henry
The Illustrated Salar the Salmon

Yeoman, Guy
Africa's Mountains of the Moon: Journeys to the Snowy Sources of the Nile

John Burroughs Medal winners