List: environmental and nature-related books of note

Here's a listing of environmental and nature-related books that reflects the history of this form of journalism. One of my professors at UNT, Randy Lee Loftis (science, health and environmental reporter for the Dallas Morning News), provided his insights on these books – along with select readings – during our last class meeting the fall 2012. It was inspirational, to say the least.
Enjoy!
• Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selbourne, 1788
• William Bartram, Travels, 1791
• John Filson, The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke, 1784
• Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto VIII, 1822
• Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851
• Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859
• Henry DAvid Thoreau, The Maine Woods, 1864
• John Wesley Powell, The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons, 1874
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover, 1877
• John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939
• Rachel Carson, Under the Sea-Wind, 1941
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass, 1947
• Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949
• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
• Anonymous Cherokee legend, "Earth Making," told in 1974
• Barry Holstun Lopez, Of Wolves and Men, 1978
• Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard, 1978
• Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986
• Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life, 1992
• David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo, 1996
• Ricardo Rozzi, Multi-ethnic Bird Guide of the Austral Temperate Forests of South America, 2003
• Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country, 2008
• Richard Louv, The Nature Principle, 2012