Quammen

David Quammen is one of my favorite nature writers. A hard-core proponent of Darwinism, he writes beautifully about our evolving environment and the interactions of organisms within that environment. Quammen is especially good at discussing the intriguing connection between environmental conditions and phenomena, and the people and culture who live among them. In his writing he discusses politics, cultural history, and especially the history of man's interaction with animals and plants in the environment. Here are portions of a lecture that Quammen did at Dartmouth.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~envs/events/quammen/quammen_into.mov http://www.dartmouth.edu/~envs/events/quammen/quammen_mus.mov http://www.dartmouth.edu/~envs/events/quammen/quammen_alien.mov

Here is his biblio.
Bibliography

Quammen, David. The Flight of the Iguana: a Sidelong View of Science and Nature. New York: Delacorte Press, 1988.

Quammen, David. Miracle of the Geese. Words from the Land: Encounters with Natural History Writing. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1988.

Quammen, David. Natural Acts: a Sidelong View of Science and Nature. New York: Schocken Books, 1985.

Quammen, David. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. New York: Scribner, 1996.

Quammen, David. Wild Thoughts From Wild Places. New York: Scribner, 1998.

Quammen, David. Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder. New York: Scribner, 2001.

Quammen, David. Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind. New York: Scribner, 2003.