Ecology
Discover a range of books that explore the topic of ecology and spirituality.
Searchable Library Catalogue of Theosophical Texts
The following reading list attempts to achieve a balance between the older classical books and modern expositions:
- Badiner, Allan Hunt (Ed.) Dharma Gaia. A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology (Parallax Press 1990)
- Barbour, Ian G.(Ed.) Earth Might Be Fair. Reflections on Ethics, Religion, and Ecology (Prentice-Hall 1972)
- Barbour, Ian G.(Ed.) Western Man And Environmental Ethics. Attitudes Toward Nature and Technology (Addison-Wesley 1973)
- Barnhill, D. L. and R. S. Gottlieb (Eds.) Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Grounds (SUNY Press)
- Broomfield, John Other Ways of Knowing: Recharting Our Future with Ageless Wisdom (Inner Traditions 1997)
- Capra, F. The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Anchor Books 1997)
- Carson, Rachael Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin 1962/1987)
- Devall, Bill Simple In Means, Rich In Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology (Peregrine Smith Books 1988)
- Devall, Bill& George Sessions Deep Ecology — Living As If Nature Mattered (Gibbs M. Smith, Inc. 1985)
- Drengson, A. & Yuichi Inoue (Eds) The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology (North Atlantic Books 1995)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume1: Nature, Addresses, And Lectures (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1971)
- Fox, Warwick Toward A Transpersonal Ecology (A Resurgence Book 1990/1995)
- Hayden, T. The Lost Gospel of the Earth (Sierra Club Books 1996)
- Lovelock, James The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth (Bantam 1990)
- Lovelock, James The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate In Crisis and the Fate of Humanity (Basic Books 2006)
- Mathews, Freya For Love Of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism (SUNY Press 2003)
- Meadows, Donella H. et al. The Limits To Growth — A report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind (Pan Books 1974)
- Merchant, Carolyn Radical Ecology: The Search For A Livable World (Routledge 1992)
- Naess, Arne Ecology, Community and Lifestyle: Outline of An Ecosophy (Cambridge University Press 1989)
- Nicholson, Shirley & Brenda Rosen Gaia’s Hidden Life: The Unseen Intelligence Of Nature (Quest 1992)
- Roszak, Theodore Where The Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society (Doubleday 1972)
- Roszak, Theodore et al (Eds.) Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth Healing the Mind (Sierra Club Books 1995)
- Sessions, George Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century (Shambhala 1995)
- Spretnak, Charlene The Spiritual Dimension Of Green Politics (Bear & Company 1986)
- Tucker, M. E. and J. A. Grim (Eds) Worldviews and Ecology, Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment (Orbis Books 1994)
- Wienpahl, Paul The Radical Spinoza (New York University Press 1979)