11 must-read environment books like The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals by Ross Barnett

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Similar categories in Bill Bailey's Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to British Birds book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nature
• nonfiction
• animals
• natural history

Similar categories in George Monbiot's Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• natural history
• nonfiction
• environment
• nature
• science

Similar categories in Marie Brennan's In the Labyrinth of Drakes (The Memoirs of Lady Trent #4) book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

Similar categories in Marie Brennan's Within the Sanctuary of Wings (The Memoirs of Lady Trent #5) book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

Similar categories in Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

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

Similar categories in Tim Flannery's The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nature
• biology
• natural history
• 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

Similar categories in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1) book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

Similar categories in John Kelly's The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

Similar categories in Marie Brennan's The Tropic of Serpents (The Memoirs of Lady Trent #2) book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

Similar categories in Alan W. Watts's Tao: The Watercourse Way book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nonfiction

"[S]een as a whole the universe is a harmony or symbiosis of patterns which cannot exist without each other."

-Alan W. Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way

"Trust in human nature is acceptance of the good-and-bad of it, and it is hard to trust those who do not admit their own weakness."

-Alan W. Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way

"The human organism has the same kind of innate intelligence as the ecosystems of nature, and the wisdom of the nerves and senses must be watched with patience and respect."

-Alan W. Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way

"[W]hen "the rule of law" becomes absolutized and everything is done by the book or the computer, people call out in desperation for the intervention of a reasonable human being."

-Alan W. Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way

Similar categories in Marie Brennan's The Voyage of the Basilisk (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #3) book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

Similar categories in Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

Similar categories in Marie Brennan's A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1) book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

"I have often found this to be true since, that matters which seem terribly important in the early days of such a journey (what will people back home say?) fade into triviality with the passage of tim…"

-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)

"You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels…"

-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)

"... I think that was the moment at which I realised I was truly leaving. This is something the gentlemen readers of this memoir may not understand, but the ladies will know it all too well. If they a…"

-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)

"It’s—it’s as if there is a dragon inside me. I don’t know how big she is; she may still be growing. But she has wings, and strength, and—and I can’t keep her in a cage. She’ll die. I’ll die. I know i…"

-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)

Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• history
• biology
• natural history
• nonfiction
• environment
• nature
• science

"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Similar categories in Riley Black's The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• history
• biology
• animals
• natural history
• palaeontology
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."

-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"

-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"

-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nonfiction
• history

"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

Similar categories in Bart Van Loo's De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nonfiction
• history

Similar categories in Mary Beard's Women & Power: A Manifesto book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nonfiction
• history

"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

Similar categories in Monique Roffey's The Mermaid of Black Conch book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

"Womanhood was a dangerous business if you didn't get it right."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"The sea was the giant woman of the planet, fluid and contrary."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"It was the magic that music makes, the song that lives within every creature on earth, including mermaids."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"Life change quick boy. Another planet so. Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, till it come"

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

Similar categories in Isabella Tree's Wilding book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nature
• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• environment
• 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

Similar categories in Dacre Stoker's Dracul book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

"Like life, there is much we do not understand about death."

-Dacre Stoker, Dracul

"I have known politicians with more skeletons in their closet than an undertaker's wife."

-Dacre Stoker, Dracul

Similar categories in David Attenborough's A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nature
• history
• biology
• nonfiction
• environment
• science

"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

Similar categories in Derek Gow's Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• conservation
• environment
• nature
• science

Similar categories in Peter Ross's A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nonfiction
• history

"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."

-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

Similar categories in Dave Goulson's The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nature
• biology
• natural history
• nonfiction
• environment
• science

"much of the peat sold in garden centres is now imported from other countries, notably from Ireland, Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Estonia is a wild and unspoiled country where bears and wolves still r…"

-Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet

"We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disa…"

-Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet

Similar categories in John Lewis-Stempel's Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nature
• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• environment
• science

Similar categories in Dan Eatherley's Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals from Over There That Are Over Here book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nature
• history
• biology
• natural history
• nonfiction
• environment
• science

Similar categories in Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• history
• biology
• animals
• natural history
• palaeontology
• nonfiction
• conservation
• environment
• nature
• science

Similar categories in Derek Gow's Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• history
• animals
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

Similar categories in Dominic Couzens's Save Our Species: Endangered Animals and How You Can Save Them book and Ross Barnett's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals

• nonfiction