The following are the books, articles, and Shambhalla Institute curricula that have inspired me and that I referred to for knowledge and information.
Bell, Graham. The Permaculture Way: Practical Steps to Create a Self-Sustaining World (Northampton, England: Thorsons, 1992).
Berry, Wendell. Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009).
Betts, Edwin Morris, and Hazelhurst Bolton Perkins. Thomas Jefferson’s Flower Garden at Monticello (Charlottesville, Virginia & London: University of Virginia Press, 1986).
Bockermuhl, Jochen. Dying Forests: A Crisis in Consciousness (UK: Hawthorne Press, 1986).
Cohen, Becky, and Jim Duggan (photography). Plants in the Getty’s Central Garden (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004).
Davidson, A.K. The Art of Zen Gardens (Los Angeles: Putnam, 1983).
Green, Aliza. Field Guide to Herbs and Spices: How to Identify, Select, and Use Virtually Every Seasoning at the Market (Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2006).
Griswold, Mac. Washington’s Gardens at Mount Vernon: Landscape of the Inner Man (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
Gyatso, Tenzin (The Fourteenth Dalai Lama). A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1994).
Harrison, Marie. Groundcovers for the South (Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 2006).
Herlin, Dr. Susan J. Ancient African Civilizations to ca. 1500. (Professor Emerita, Department of History, University of Louisiana; wysinger.homestead.com/africanhistory.html
Hoplins, Jeffrey. Kalachakra: Tantra Rite of Initiation (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1985).
Keane, Marc Peter. The Art of Setting Stones (Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2002).
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949).
Megre, Vladimir. The Ringing Cedars Series (Paia, Hawaii: 2003).
Miller, Melinda Joy. The Guidebook for Color (Philadelphia: Light Works and Company, 1987).
Miller. Rainbow Dancer (Rainbow Dancer, 1989).
Miller. Walking the Medicine Wheel of Peace (Rainbow Dancer, 1989).
Mollison, Bill. Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual (Australia: Tagari Publications 1988).
Morrow, Rosemary. Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture (Australia: Kangaroo Press, 1993).
Nitsch, Twylah Hurd (Yehwehnode). Entering Into the Silence the Seneca Way. (Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, Irving, New York: The Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge of the Seneca Indian Historical Society, 1976).
Nitsch. Language of the Stones (1982).
Nitsch. Nature Chants and Dances (1984).
Nitsch. Language of the Trees: A Seneca Indian Earthwalk (1982).
Piburn, Sidney. A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings by and About the Dalai Lama (Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1990).
Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World (USA: Random House, 2001).
Rossbach, Sarah. Interior Design with Feng Shui (New York: Dutton, 1991).
Sheldrake, Rupert. Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness (Vermont: Park Street Press, 1992).
Sheldrake. The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (Vermont: Park Street Press, 1988).
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-sapiens
Takei, Jiro, and Marc P. Keane. Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden (North Clarendon, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2008).
Taylor, Sandy, and Dr. Kwadwo Asafo-Agyei Okrah. African Indigenous Knowledge and Science (Philadelphia: Infinity Publishing, 2004)
Toensmeier, Eric. Perennial Vegetables (White River, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007).
Tull, Deborah Eden. The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution (Port Townsend, Washington: Process Media, 2010).
Weaver, William Woys, and Signe Sundberg-Hall (illustrator). 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2000).
Wijaya, Made. Tropical Garden Design (Boston: Periplus Editions, 1999).
Wydra, Nancy. Feng Shui in the Garden: Simple Solutions for Creating a Comforting, Life-Affirming Garden of the Soul (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1997).
“Early Modern Homo sapiens.” anthro.palomar.edu/homo2/mod_homo_4.htm