The course I am enrolled in right now is serving as a wonderful stepping stone to my final thesis for this program. Luckily for me, this course’s final paper is not required to be a research paper; the professor is allowing a more thematic approach to a longer essay. With my work responsibilities increasing recently, I am grateful for that.
I’ve decided to focus on reverence in environmental thought for my paper. By studying reverence, I hope to understand the philosophical motivations, and intellectual traditions, of those who consider themselves both religious and ecological.
The paper will broadly incorporate the books we have read in class, and my professor communicated to me this evening that I may include other sources as well.
So far, we have read:
Genesis
John Ray
John Muir
Gilbert White
Aldo Leopold
Charles Darwin
Rachel Carson
We are yet to read:
E.F. Schumacher
James Lovelock
Herman Daly and John Cobb
I will also write about Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and likely Bill McKibben though I don’t know much about him.
Is there anyone I should include? What other environmental writers express a sense of reverence (not necessarily religious) in their work?
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