My more-than-human friends are my greatest teachers. Among our human kin, I share here my most cherished words written by those whose influence I hope to contribute to and elevate.
In No Particular Order:
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, 1974
The Books of Earthsea
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, 1968-2001
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
Edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer, 2021
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Octavia E. Butler, 1995
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1970
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon, 1967
The Hanish Cycle
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, 1966-2002
Catwings
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, 1988
Uncivilization, The Dark Mountain Manifesto
The Dark Mountain Project, 2009
A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold, 1949
Respect for Nature
Paul W. Taylor, 1986
Watership Down
Richard Adams, 1972
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, 1996
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde, 1984
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
Beth E. Richie, 2012
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
Edited by Kathleen Dean Moore & Michael P. Nelson, 2011