22 must-read nonfiction books like Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes

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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 …

"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 our business. We’re beginning to act as if it’s not there any more."

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

"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 our business. We’re beginning to act as if it’s not there any more."

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

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot

1. Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

By: George Monbiot

4.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that tr… read more

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  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

2. The Wild Places

By: Robert Macfarlane

3.73

Format: None pages,

"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more

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3. A Winter Book

By: Tove Jansson

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Written with such a lightness of touch that it seems miraculous, these stories are a further revela… read more

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4. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

By: John Lewis-Stempel

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more

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5. Paddington at Large (Paddington, #5)

By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

There'll always be an England, but the old place has never been quite the same since the Brown chil… read more

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6. Dart

By: Alice Oswald

4.00

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and wo… read more

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7. A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm

By: Dave Goulson

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

A conservationist's deeply personal and fascinating reflection on owning and revitalizing a farm in… read more

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8. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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9. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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10. Diary of a Young Naturalist

By: Dara McAnulty

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

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11. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

By: Noreen Masud

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

Cover of Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy   Jones

12. Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild

By: Lucy Jones

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet na… read more

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  • nature
  • self help
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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13. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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14. A Year of Living Simply: The joys of a life less complicated

By: Kate Humble

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If there is one thing that most of us aspire to, it is, simply, to be happy. And yet attaining hap… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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15. Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

By: Lucy Mangan

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Each book is a world entire. You're going to have to take more than one pass at it."

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

"The intensity of childhod reading, the instant and complete absorption in a book - a good book, a bad book, in any kind of book - is something I would give much to recapture"

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

"The philosopher and psychologist Riccardo Manzotti describes the process of reading and rereading as creating both locks and keys with which to open them; it shows you an area of life you didn't even…"

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

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16. The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday

By: Sharon Blackie

4.04

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Taking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales,… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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17. 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

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  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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18. 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

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • ecology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • 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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19. The Gulf

By: Adam de Souza

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Staring down the final days of high school, a group of friends runs away from home in order to join… read more

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20. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm

By: Lee Schofield

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more

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  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence by Gavin Francis

21. Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence

By: Gavin Francis

4.07

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

“An essential book for our times, full of wisdom, compassion and sound advice. Every patient needs … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism by George Monbiot

22. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

By: George Monbiot

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Back to Nature: How to love life - and save it by Chris Packham

23. Back to Nature: How to love life - and save it

By: Chris Packham

4.20

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

One thing has become clear this year - we need nature more than ever. And it needs us too. From … read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World by Benedict Macdonald

24. Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World

By: Benedict Macdonald

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once su… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel

25. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

By: John Lewis-Stempel

4.02

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more

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  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."

-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

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26. Thinking on My Feet: The Small Joy of Putting One Foot in Front of Another

By: Kate Humble

3.96

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Thinking on My Feet tells the story of Kate's walking year—shining a light on the benefits of this … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • nature
  • self help
Cover of Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You by Nick Hayes

27. Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You

By: Nick Hayes

4.35

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences released a paper that measured fourteen European… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
Cover of Be a Birder: Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024 by Hamza Yassin

28. Be a Birder: Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024

By: Hamza Yassin

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

'Birds have been with me my entire life - from the colourful weaver birds on the banks of the Nile … read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • natural history
Cover of Grounded: How connection with nature can improve our mental and physical wellbeing by Ruth    Allen

29. Grounded: How connection with nature can improve our mental and physical wellbeing

By: Ruth Allen

4.13

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Reflecting on nature's unknowable and mysterious qualities, Grounded explores how we can therapeuti… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of British Woodland: Discover the Hidden World of Britain's Forests by Ray Mears

30. British Woodland: Discover the Hidden World of Britain's Forests

By: Ray Mears

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Take a walk in the forest with this immersive guide to our life-giving discover which wood to use … read more

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31. Watching Waterbirds

By: Kate Humble

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This book introduces some 75 species of wetland birds to readers through the eyes of Kate Humble. A… read more

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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

4.20

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Isabella Tree

4.46

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Diary of a Young Naturalist

Dara McAnulty

4.21

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A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

Noreen Masud

4.20

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

4.37

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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Anne Carson

4.00

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Les Diners de Gala

Salvador Dalí , J. Peter Moore

3.57

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

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