The Oak Papers
By: James Canton
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Thrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship, Professor James Canton spent two year…
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1. The Edge of the Sea
By: Sue Hubbell , Rachel Carson , Bob Hines
4.21
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, writes this book focusing on the plants and invertebrates s… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
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"In the lowest pools the Laminarias begin to appear, called variously the oarweeds, devil’s aprons, sea tangles, and kelps. The Laminarias belong to the brown algae, which flourish in the dimness of d…"-Sue Hubbell, The Edge of the Sea
"Hearing the rising tide, I think how it is pressing also against other shores I know — rising on a southern beach where there is no fog, but a moon edging all the waves with silver and touching the w…"-Sue Hubbell, The Edge of the Sea
2. The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
By: Paul Kingsnorth , Wendell Berry
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridle… read more
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- nature
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves. It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are."-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
"Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods."-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
3. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
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- nature
- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- environment
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
4. The Gift
By: Hafez , Daniel Ladinsky
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. Where Do Camels Belong?
By: Ken Thompson
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Where do camels come from? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer. But they are relative new… read more
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- history
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6. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- nature
- plants
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
7. The Sea Around Us
By: Rachel Carson , Ann H. Zwinger
3.79
Format: 704 pages,
The Sea Around Usis one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural worl… read more
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8. How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You've Never Noticed
By: Tristan Gooley
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
"For those inclined to solve mysteries written into the landscape, this author's lead is one they'l… read more
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9. The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners
By: Jack Hawley
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
This translation of the epic mystical poem uses everyday prose to walk the reader through difficult… read more
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10. 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
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11. Fox & I
By: Catherine Raven
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everyth…"-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
12. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
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- science
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
13. 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
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14. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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- nature
- history
- plants
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
15. Courting the Wild Twin
By: Martin Shaw
4.30
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Master mythologist Martin Shaw uses timeless story-wisdom to examine our broken relationship with t… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
16. The Hidden World of the Fox
By: Adele Brand
3.81
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
Ecologist Adele Brand has devoted her life to understanding the fabled yet enigmatic fox. Now she r… read more
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17. The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.44
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES, PETER WOHLLEBEN, INVITES US TO RECONNECT WITH NATUR… read more
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- environment
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18. Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World
By: John Philip Newell
4.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A leading spiritual teacher reveals how Celtic spirituality—listening to the sacred around us and i… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
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19. Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
When you walk in the woods, do you use all five senses to explore your surroundings? For most of us… read more
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20. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
By: Sy Montgomery
4.14
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more
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21. The Oak Papers
By: James Canton
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Thrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship, Professor James Canton spent two year… read more
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- biography
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