20 must-read nonfiction books like The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten

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The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

By: Katie Holten

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.37

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

This definitive collection includes more than 100 poems composed over the last forty years. Thich N… read more

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"If we stop being joyful and stop singing, we are caught in a kind of prison. The stars in the sky never build prisons."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh

"Be the monarch of your life and sign the decree to exile suffering and call back from all points of the universe the power of birds and flowers, the vitality of youth. The whole universe will smile w…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh

"Certain wondrous phenomena respond to the human need to know the infinite, truth, beauty, goodness. Others, deliberately enigmatic, remain inaccessible to our brains and hearts. Humans are much too a…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh

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2. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwaterare a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Ann… read more

Similar categories in Anne Carson's Plainwater: Essays and Poetry book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • poetry
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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3. Les Diners de Gala

By: Salvador Dalí , J. Peter Moore

3.57

Format: 24 pages,

"When six years old I wanted to be a cook" Dali wrote. He is now sixty eight and his ambition is fu… read more

Similar categories in Salvador Dalí's Les Diners de Gala book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • nonfiction

4. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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5. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • science
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6. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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7. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more

Similar categories in Ross Gay's The Book of (More) Delights: Essays book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • poetry
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature
"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."

-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

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8. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more

Similar categories in Lyanda Lynn Haupt's Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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9. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

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10. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

By: Felicia Rose Chavez

4.59

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innov… read more

Similar categories in Felicia Rose Chavez's The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • nonfiction
  • writing
"Mothering, for me, means willpower, fortitude, grit. It is the transcendent power to multiply oneself, succeeded by the supreme humility to serve that second self."

-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

"I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in tears, because I couldn't yet differentiate …"

-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

"I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in teachers because I couldn't yet differentiat…"

-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

"Membership necessitates mutual participation. How can we possibly achieve membership when our presence-the feat of occupying space in brown skin-is deemed illegitimate? We're non-people, exploited fo…"

-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

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11. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

By: Joy Harjo

4.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."

-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

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12. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • poetry
  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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13. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

By: Leila Philip

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more

Similar categories in Leila Philip's Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • nature
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams

14. Erosion: Essays of Undoing

By: Terry Tempest Williams

4.24

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist … read more

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  • poetry
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • science
"Rather than anchoring our hope beyond the struggle, always projecting ahead, perhaps locating joy within the struggle through our full presence can be our essential gesture at this moment in time. To…"

-Terry Tempest Williams, Erosion: Essays of Undoing

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15. The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

By: Katie Holten

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . … read more

Similar categories in Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • poetry
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes

16. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

By: Simon Barnes

3.92

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more

Similar categories in Simon Barnes's Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • nature
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"

-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

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17. Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life

By: Helen Scales

4.44

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

This is an inspiring tour of the world's oceans and 80 of its most notable inhabitants. Beautifully… read more

Similar categories in Helen Scales's Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves by Tristan Gooley

18. How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves

By: Tristan Gooley

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley opens our eyes to the secret language of trees—and… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee

19. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

By: Jessica J. Lee

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more

Similar categories in Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • science
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20. Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

By: Fariha Róisín

3.77

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Ró… read more

Similar categories in Fariha Róisín's Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems book and Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Forgiveness is holding the multiplicity."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

"The natural world meets me where humans cannot."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

"Herodotus knew to tell a story, you had to respect it first."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

"Nothing rings truer than blazing through the bright white streak of eucalyptus fire we decided to call life."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

Cover of The Tree Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees by D.K. Publishing

21. The Tree Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees

By: D.K. Publishing

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The secret world of trees is revealed in this beautiful and absorbing guide to the giants of the pl… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • science

6 best-selling essays books like The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten

Transform Your Habits

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Anne Carson

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

Ross Gay

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Erosion: Essays of Undoing

Terry Tempest Williams

4.24

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Margaret Renkl

4.37

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4.54

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