David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World      Pantheon Books, 1996     ISBN 0679776397      Elegant in exposition, vast in implication, this groundbreaking work of ecological philosophy compellingly argues the necessity for restoring humanity's lost connections with the sensuous world. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as phenomenology and sleight-of-hand magic, David Abram explains how the processes readers think of as "mental" actually derive from a deeply physical interaction with the rest of nature.

Richard Cartwright Austin, The Environmental Theology series (Click to order from Creekside Press) Baptized into Wilderness: A Christian Perspective on John Muir (1990)   ISBN 0804208697 Beauty of the Lord: Awakening the Senses (1988)   ISBN 080420859X Hope for the Land: Nature in the Bible (1988) ISBN 0804208611 Reclaiming America: Restoring Nature to Culture (1988) ISBN 0962583103

Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future.      Bell Tower, 2000     ISBN 0609804995      The author, a self-described "geologian,"  is both a brilliant thinker and a theologian; and this book is the culmination of his career (he's in his eighties). No other writer has such a comprehensive or historically rich vision of the way in which we must address the future. The Great Work is to find a way to heal the planet. Berry tells us how to respond to the earth, enter into a conversation with it — an understanding on which our life and its depends. He explains the spiritual dynamics of the universe and how we need to move from our human-centered to an earth-centered view of reality. We must recognize that the earth belongs to itself and not to us. Berry's writing is lucid, spare, and beautiful..

Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988     ISBN 0871566222

Joseph Cornell, Listening to Nature: How to Deepen Your Awareness of Nature
     Dawn Publications, 1987     ISBN 0916124355

Annie Dillard, Teaching A Stone to Talk      HarperCollins, 1992     ISBN 0060915412      The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Annie Dillard, shares her sharply observed, keenly felt encounters with the natural world--in landscapes of Eastern woods and farmlands, the Pacific Northwest coast, and tropical islands and rivers.

EarthLight
The Magazine of Spiritual Ecology
     "...the magazine to read if you are concerned about the fate of the planet, and have a sense that, at its root, this is a profoundly spiritual issue."   —Brian Swimme
 

Derrick Jensen, A Language Other Than Words      Context Books, 2000     ISBN 1893956032      At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an uncompromising political tract, Derrick Jensen's narrative moves elegantly between the microcosm of Jensen's family and the macrocosm of world history. Parallels are drawn between the abuse he experienced at the hands of his father and the destructive march of "progress" under the banner of a world market. He highlights the inevitable losses of a planet that is dying to keep up with the selfish whims of its inhabitants.

John Nolt, Down to Earth: Toward a Philosophy of Nonviolent Living
     Earth Knows Publications, 2001     ISBN 0964465906

E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
     HarperCollins, 1989     ISBN 0060916303

Anthony Weston, Back to Earth: Tomorrow's Environmentalism      Temple University Press, 1994     ISBN 1566392373      "Environmentalism in a new key," Anthony Weston's book is an invitation to live "in the presence of the more-than-human...to awake and go to sleep with it, to take its rhythms and cycles for the rhythms and cycles of [our own lives], until the two finally merge into one stream."