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I thank the following friends and teachers for their personal contributions and inspiration:
- Mel Gray, art teacher & polymath
- Carl Faber, artist & polymath
- Richard Merriman, pastor
- Bill Zimmerman, former sociology professor & founder of Science for the People
- Richard McKeon, philosopher
- Tom Hackett, physician, athlete, anthropologist & aboriginal skills instructor
- Cody Lundin, aboriginal skills instructor
- Jason Sexton, ecologist & musician
- John Wehausen, biologist & musician
- Jim Andre, botanist & natural resource manager
- Jef Jaeger, biologist & writer
- Jack Alpert, engineer, educator & activist
- Philippe Cohen, natural resource manager
- Friend Michael Wells, movie producer & polymath
- Carson Barnes, horticulturalist, artist & polymath
- Calvin Meyers, environmental activist & former tribal chairman, Moapa Paiute Tribe
- Katy Belt, artist & naturalist
- Henrik Wahren, ecologist
The following publications and authors have been especially inspirational or otherwise helpful:
Philosophy & Psychology:
- Various works, Wendell Berry
- Various works, Paul Shepard
- Person/Planet, Theodore Roszak
- Technopoly, Neil Postman
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
- Becoming Native to This Place, Wes Jackson
- The Island Within, Richard Nelson
- The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram
- Within the Context of No Context, George W. S. Trow
- Philosophy in the Flesh, George Lakoff & Mark Johnson
- The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, Allucquère Rosanne Stone
- On the Nature of Things, Lucretius
- Operational Philosophy, Anatol Rapoport
- Science and Sanity, Alfred Korzybski
- Various works, Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Classic works of Aristotle, Plato, Gibbon, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Pascal, Nietzsche, Freud, Dewey, Russell, Benjamin, Marcuse, Foucault, Beaudrillard, etc.
- Classic works on Buddhism
- and many more
Human Society & Ecology:
- The Peaceful Societies project of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Anthropology
- Various Works, Jean Giono
- Man on Earth & Africa: A Biography of the Continent, John Reader
- Italian Journey, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Various Works, Gary Paul Nabhan
- PrairyErth, William Least Heat-Moon
- Various Works, Jack Weatherford
- The Irish Countryman, Conrad M. Arensberg
- Various Works, Freya Stark
- The Chemehuevis, Carobeth Laird
- The Harmless People & The Old Way, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Shantyboat & Payne Hollow, Harlan Hubbard
- Journey Among Men, Jock Marshall & Russell Drysdale
- The Sheltering Desert, Henno Martin
- Coral Island, Marston Bates & Donald Abbott
- Survival Skills of the Primitive Paiutes, Margaret Wheat
- Southern Paiute: A Portrait, William Logan Hebner & Michael L. Plyler
- Various Works, Studs Terkel
- South From Granada: A Sojourn in Southern Spain, Gerald Brenan
- Sea Room, Adam Nicolson
- The Book of the Tongass, ed. Carolyn Servid and Donald Snow
- Amish Society, John A. Hostetler
- Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups, Julian H. Steward
- Various Works, Claude Levi-Strauss
- Various Works, Thor Heyerdahl
- Various Works, Oliver Sacks
- Cities of Gold & Talking to the Ground, Douglas Preston
- The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa, Stephen Oppenheimer
- Various Works, Elaine Morgan
- Australia's Aborigines: Their Life and Culture, Frederick D. McCarthy
- A Traveller's Guide to Aboriginal Australia, Burnum Burnum
- Europe in the High Middle Ages, William Chester Gordon
- Facing East From Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter
- Human Natures, Paul R. Ehrlich
- Various Works, Jared Diamond
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann
- Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer
- The Riddle of Amish Culture, Donald B. Kraybill
- Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, Marjorie Shostak
- Various Works, Luis Alberto Urrea
- Barbarians to Angels, Peter S. Wells
- Hunters and Gatherers Today, ed. M. G. Bicchieri
- Ecology in Ancient Civilizations, J. Donald Hughes
- Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology, ed. George Gmelch & Walter P. Zenner
- and many more
Life on Earth:
- Five Kingdoms, Micro-Cosmos, & Symbiotic Planet, Lynn Margulis
- The Eternal Frontier, Tim Flannery
- The Web of Life, Fritjof Capra
- The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner
- The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart
- Soul Among Lions, Harley Shaw
- Wandering Lands and Animals, Edwin H. Colbert
- Life's Solution, Simon Conway Morris
- Various textbooks
- and many more
Physical Sciences:
- Coursework & textbooks on physics, chemistry, geophysics & astrophysics
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