SIGURD OLSON — The Singing Wilderness
Canoe country, written by the man who did most to protect it.
RICHARD VACHA — The Heart of Tracking
Tracking as a way of paying attention, from a tracker working in Point Reyes.
JOHN CAGE — A Mycological Foray
Cage was a serious mycologist. Attention as practice, again, from an unexpected direction.
RODERICK NASH — Wilderness and the American Mind
How wilderness was invented as an idea, and by whom. Necessary before using the word.
REBECCA SOLNIT — Wanderlust: A History of Walking
The intellectual history of the thing Thoreau started. Solnit writes from the Bay Area, which is not incidental.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU — Walking
The founding text of walking as distinct from getting somewhere.
NAN SHEPHERD — The Living Mountain
Written in the 1940s about being in a mountain rather than conquering it. The finest argument against summit-thinking ever made.
GARY SNYDER — The Practice of the Wild
The book behind most of what this project believes. Attention as a discipline, place as an obligation.