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Have you read The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas? Might be right up your alley considering this project. It’s a quick read but elegantly written.
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I did the bio route, specifically botany. B_Prov has a great list, but my 2 cents: The origins go back to native American traditions of animism. Trying to find some quality and formative ethnographies on their world view may give you more of a chronistic context.
Many of the modern romance authors are, sort of, a proto-revisitation of those themes. Thoreau is solid (you can certainly pick apart things, but his premise is solid). I second Muir, and Leopold. Sand County Almanac was the precursor to the modern environmental movement and the foundations of deep ecology. Again, this is a more articulated 'white-man's' animism. Edward Abbey is a bit more cynical, but also a better author then many of his predecessors.
That said, here are a couple that you may find interesting as a biologist:
Gathering Moss
lives of a cell
Natural History of North American Trees: 2 vol ,
The Immense Journey
Oddly, I thought Vonnegut's Galapagos was riveting.