15 must-read nature books like Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies by Akiva Silver

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Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

By: Akiva Silver

4.57

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The organic grower's guide to planting, propagation, culture, and ecology Trees are our allies in h…

If you liked the nature plot in Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies by Akiva Silver , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The One-Straw Revolution

By: Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more

Similar categories in Masanobu Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

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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

Similar categories in Paul Kingsnorth's The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • agriculture
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • agriculture
"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

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4. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

By: Kevin D. Mitnick , William L. Simon , Steve Wozniak

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and n… read more

Similar categories in Kevin D. Mitnick's Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation by Alan Burdick

5. Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation

By: Alan Burdick

4.33

Format: 288 pages,

A brilliant, witty, and thought-provoking trip by The New Yorker's science and tech editor and Nati… read more

Similar categories in Alan Burdick's Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nonfiction
  • science
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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

Similar categories in Tim Flannery's The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nature
  • 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 Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

By: Richard Preston

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone comes an amazing account of scientific and spiritual… read more

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8. The Witches: Salem, 1692

By: Stacy Schiff

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying… read more

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9. 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

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

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10. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

By: Nick Offerman

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about … read more

Similar categories in Nick Offerman's Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
"...when you make art with confidence, then clumsiness doesn't play as clumsiness, but panache."

-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

"Break up your cycle. Get out of your rut. Find a way in your normal setting to "feel alive." One thing I'll do is get up early and see the sunrise from my yard, or for some bonus points, from my roof…"

-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

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11. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.35

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more

Similar categories in Douglas W. Tallamy's The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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12. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more

Similar categories in Douglas W. Tallamy's Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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13. 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

Similar categories in Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • 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

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14. The Overstory

By: Richard Powers

4.12

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more

Similar categories in Richard Powers's The Overstory book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nature
  • environment
"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

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15. Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

By: David R. Montgomery

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A call to action that underscore… read more

Similar categories in David R. Montgomery's Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"In many ways, soil degradation set the long-wavelenght pattern of history, as wars, natural disasters, and climate shifts pulled the trigger on environmental guns loaded by soil loss and degradation."

-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

"People tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But that's not necessarily the case - and it hasn't been for most of history. While going organic has some big advantage…"

-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

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16. Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture

By: Gabe Brown

4.46

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in… read more

Similar categories in Gabe Brown's Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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17. 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

Similar categories in Peter Wohlleben's The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nature
  • 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

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18. 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

Similar categories in Martin Shaw's Courting the Wild Twin book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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19. 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

Similar categories in John Philip Newell's Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
Cover of Soil Science for Gardeners: Working with Nature to Build Soil Health by Robert Pavlis

20. Soil Science for Gardeners: Working with Nature to Build Soil Health

By: Robert Pavlis

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Build healthy soil and grow better plants Healthy soil means thriving plants. Yet untangling the… read more

Similar categories in Robert Pavlis's Soil Science for Gardeners: Working with Nature to Build Soil Health book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • reference
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21. Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

By: Akiva Silver

4.57

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The organic grower's guide to planting, propagation, culture, and ecology Trees are our allies in h… read more

Similar categories in Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies book and Akiva Silver's Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

  • nature
  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • environment
  • science

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The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Paul Kingsnorth , Wendell Berry

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Wendell Berry

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

Kevin D. Mitnick , William L. Simon , Steve Wozniak

4.12

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

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