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