Thanks for starting this Ken. And thanks to you all for the leads to some good summer reading.

Mine:

The Holy Earth, L.H. Bailey

http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Earth-Liberty-Hyde-Bailey/dp/0960531467

"L. H. Bailey, a proponent of environmental stewardship, reflected on society's disconnect with its own earth at the turn of the twentieth century. Progressive and provocative, Bailey's seminal 1915 work calls on the individual to recognize the divine in the common land we occupy."

My highlighting.

Sometimes it seems to me not much has changed. Perhaps more folks should have read it in the last century? I try to re-read it once a year or so as a reminder.

The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)

member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?