I ended my year with one final book: Wild Mind, Wild Earth by David Hinton. It is an argument that in order to save Planet Earth from the ongoing Sixth Extinction, it must be returned to a state of wildness, and in order to do that, we humans must ourselves return to a state of wildness that we have long forgotten. This state of wildness is represented by the life philosophy of Paleolithic peoples which lives on in Taoist/Ch’an (Zen) modes of thinking and viewing the world.
Basically, our current problem is that, as humans, we view ourselves as being outside the natural world, not a part of it, and therefore as being its dominators.