Literature, Art, and the Environment

Although we think of writing and thinking about the environment is mostly done by scientists and scholars, important contributions have also been made by artists, writers, painters and photographers.

Nonfiction:

Wikipedia book list ,
Wikipedia author list

E. Abbey Desert Solitaire

W. Berry, Unsettling America

Mike Davis City of Quartz

McH Stacks HN80.L7 D38 2006 summary excerpt on urban space critique

Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac is a 1949 book by American ecologist and environmentalist Aldo Leopold.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac

Poetry

Robinson Jefers

Jane Hirschfield

Gary Snyder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder GST!

Film

Many anime movies by Hayao Miyazaki carry a hidden environmentalist message. The best-known is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, but also well known is Pom Poko as well as Princess Mononoke, which is based on a conflict between technology and nature