Dennis James Sweeney writes: “In an era of environmental catastrophe, it’s easy to forget that we are the environment too. The world affected by climate change is not some distant place far away in the forest. It’s us. We are as much a part of the world as the trees, the birds, the ocean. The books on this reading list reflect our essential connectedness, bringing together the human and the natural in ways that remind us they have always been the same thing.”