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Ecological Literacy by David Orr
"Literacy is the ability to read. Numeracy is the ability to count. Ecological literacy, according to Garrett Hardin, is the ability to ask ‘What then?’ The failure to develop ecological literacy is a sin of omission and of commission. Not only are we failing to teach the basics about the earth and how it works, but we are in fact teaching a large amount of stuff that is simply wrong. By failing to include ecological perspectives in any number of subjects, students are taught that ecology is unimportant for history, politics, economics, society, and so forth." Read David Orr's full essay HERE. ------------------------------------------------ Essays from Down Under These two essays are the winners of the 2019 Nature Writing Prize in Australia, presented by the Nature Conservancy with the support of the McLean Foundation. Jenny Sinclair’s An Orchard For My Father and Sue Castrique’s On the Margins of the Good Swamp were those essays. ------------------------------------------------ John Muir and the Modern Passion for Nature, by Donald Worster Walking, by Henry David Thoreau Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson Alexander von Humbolt's Narratives Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck The Unsettling of America, by Wendell Berry Thinking Like a Mountain,by Aldo Leopold Field Notes on Science and Nature, by Michael Canfield John Muir's 1897 Case for Saving America's Forests
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