these are books and documentaries or movies or papers or essays that might help you get in my head. if you hover over the title and it turns dark grey it has a link, it will take you to a pdf or another free way to access the Media. if it doesnt have a link it means i dont have it but i still recommend it, and encourage y'all to use your public libraries and Interlibrary Loan Systems to access them :)
| title | author | media type | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| why look at animals? | john berger | essay/book chapter | self-explanatory maybe |
| animals in lele religious symbolism | mary douglas | essay/book chapter | details a religion that worships the pangolin (funny scaly animal) |
| cave of forgotten dreams | werner herzog | movie | documentary about the oldest cave paintings in the world |
| meditations on hunting | josé ortega y gasset | book | book on the philosophy of hunting/the impulse to hunt |
| regarding the pain of others | susan sontag | book | book on watching horrible things happen |
| butchers crossing | john williams | book | dissolution of sense of self in nature, the uh. hypnotic draw of a Vast Expanse, how greed corrupts both of those |
| gathering moss | robin wall kimmerer | book | only entry on plants i have on here which is interesting... but i think this is maybe the best book ive read "for fun" that has anything to do with plants low Key | bitter water opera | nicolette polek | book (fiction) | novel detailing obsession with place and memory and religion post-bad things happening. kind of sent me into a depression for like a month after reading but still worth noting |
| grizzly man | werner herzog | movie | my favorite movie! replacing an addiction with a religious connection with Bears. particularly the obsession with something that is pretty much garunteed to eventually kill you.... such an amazing premise, so beautiful, the people in it are all so complex |
| the liguus tree snails of south florida | henry t. close | book | love these snails... Why Not Learn More About Them. really interesting to read about their significance in indigenous clothesmaking |
| sand county almanac | aldo leopold | book | made my life goal to live somewhere for long enough to know everything about the nature of that one spot. discusses specific trees and repeat visitor birds that would migrate through every year. probably an exercise in gratitude to be so observant and invested in your surroundings |
| owls of the eastern ice | jonathan c. slaght | book | so interesting when people give up all aspects of a normal life to study another living thing that is particularly rare or endangered. in this case, its owls in siberia-- the author travels to these extreme cold destinations and waits to find one of these owls, and that's his whole life basically. i always wonder how it would feel to be a rare animal that people get really excited to see |
| the passion according to g.h. | clarice lispector | book (fiction) | love thinking about what animals disgust us and also love thinking about animals as manifestations of God... so this book is pretty perfect for A Guy Like Me |