Post Carbon Fellow David Orr was asked about the books that have inspired him in the Times Higher Education Books Interview.

From the interview:

Which were the key books that raised your awareness of ecological issues and spurred you to become an activist?
It’s a dead heat between Loren Eiseley’s The Immense Journey, René Dubos’ So Human an Animal, Ian McHarg’s Design with Nature, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. Each combined literary magic with accessible science. Worn, frayed and marked up, they are still read for pleasure and instruction.