6 Top climate change books like Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton

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Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

By: David Hinton

4.01

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, …

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1. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

Similar categories in Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • poetry
  • china
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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2. Practice of the Wild

By: Gary Snyder

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades. Future readers will come t… read more

Similar categories in Gary Snyder's Practice of the Wild book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • poetry
  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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3. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more

Similar categories in Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Waves are the practice of the water."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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4. The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.09

Format: 129 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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5. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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6. As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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8. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more

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9. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

By: Alan W. Watts

0.00

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

In this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our… 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

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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11. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • nonfiction
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12. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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13. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

Similar categories in Heather Cox Richardson's Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • nonfiction
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14. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey

By: Jonathan Meiburg

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Meiburg's A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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15. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

4.36

Format: 256 pages, ebook

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and … read more

Similar categories in Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • environment
"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Engaging with them (malignant narcissists) alone is futile - never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interac…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Understanding your own culture and the ways it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated. My reading of Germane Greer when I was a young lad was a lot more…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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16. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

4.45

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are har… read more

Similar categories in Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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17. On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

By: Naomi Klein

4.18

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • environment
"We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

"It just so happens that we are all alive at the last possible moment when changing course can mean saving lives on a truly unimaginable scale."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

"Too often, when politicians introduce climate policies divorced from a broader agenda of economic justice, the policies they introduce are actively unjust."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

"A colonial economy by definition is a dependent economy; a centralized, lopsided, and distorted economy. And as we have seen, an intensely vulnerable economy."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

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18. Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity

By: Sandrine Dixson-Decleve

4.17

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The economic system keeps crashing. It's time to install a new operating system. Five decades ag… read more

Similar categories in Sandrine Dixson-Decleve's Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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19. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

By: Maggie Nelson

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • nonfiction
"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

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20. Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

By: David Hinton

4.01

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, … read more

Similar categories in David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction book and David Hinton's Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

  • poetry
  • ecology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • climate change
  • china
  • environment
  • nature
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21. Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

By: Ferris Jabr

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voi… read more

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  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature

16 Best nonfiction books like Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Practice of the Wild

Gary Snyder

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries

Thich Nhat Hanh

4.09

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18 must-read audiobook books like The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

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