1. Loren Eiseley: The Starthrower
   H.D. Thoreau: Where I Lived and What I Lived For.
   Jed Williams: Should Ohm's Law Be Repealed
2. Excerpts from:
   • The King James Bible
   • Pliny the Elder
   • Pliny the Younger
   • Vergil
   • Aristotle
3. Abbey: The Serpents of Paradise
   Wadsworth: Selected Poetry
   Fairy Tales: Hansel and Grettel and Bagged Wolf
   John Muir: The Water Ouzel
   Mary Austin: The Land of Little Rain and The Walking Woman
4. Rachel Carson: from By the Edge of the Sea
   Henri Fabre: The Pine Processionary
   Virginia Woolf: The Death of the Moth
   Anne Dillard: The Death of a Moth and Living Like Weasels
5. Thoreau: from Ktdaan
   Muir: A Perilous Night on Mt Shasta
   Isabella Bird: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
6. Eiseley: The Slit
   Lord Kelvin: The Secular Cooling of the Earth
   Woolf: The Moment: Summer's Night
   Darwin: from Formation of Vegetable Mould
   
7. Muir: Emerson at Yosemite
   RW Emerson: Nature
   
8. Charles Darwin: Tierra Del Fuego
   Mark Twain: from Roughing It
   Garrett Hardin: The Tragedy of the Commons
9. Richard Dawkins: God's Utility Function
   Jonathan Weiner: from The Beak of the Finch
   S.J. Gould: A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse
   NYTimes OpEd selections
10. Abbey: Even the Bad Guys Wear White Hats
    Carson: from Silent Spring
    Samuel Florman: from The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
    
11. Q???: the use of mosquitos + animal rights
    Assorted shorter ecology NYTimes articles Rush Limbaugh:
12. Russell Baker: One Very Smart Tomato
    Woody Allen: My Speech to the Graduates
    Mark Twain: Was the World Made for Man?
    Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
13. Students' Choice

ESG 21W.735 Syllabus, Spring 1997
author = custer@mit.edu