Here are some wonderful books that served as inspiration and support during BRDC's founding: 

• Reading the Landscape, May Watts
• The Schools Our Children Deserve, Alfie Kohn
• The Language of Landscape, Anne Whiston Spirn
• Science and Human Values, Jacob Bronowski
• A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, The Arizona - Sonora Desert Museum
• Reading the Forested Landscape, Michael Godfrey
• The Only World We've Got, Paul Shepard
• Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv
• A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold

For the Blue Ridge: 

• Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders - An Appalachian Mountain Ecology, George Constantz 
• A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge, Christopher Camuto

Other must reads: 

• A Songbird Journeys - Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds, Miyoko Chu
• The Trees in My Forest, Bernd Heinrich
• Winter World, Bernd Heinrich
• The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner 
• Home Ground - Language for an American Landscape, Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney
• A Natural Sense of Wonder, Rick Van Noy