6 Top environment books like The Way of Imagination by Scott Russell Sanders

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The Way of Imagination

By: Scott Russell Sanders

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prize-winning essayist turns to the imagination as a spiritual guide and material method of living …

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1. The Art Of Living

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.43

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Master the art of living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders. Thich Nhat Hanh… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I think (too much), therefore I am (not there to live my life)."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living

"Whether this moment is happy or not depends on you. It`s you who makes the moment happy, not the moment that makes you happy. With mindfulness, concentration, and insight, any moment can become a hap…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living

"Breathing in, I see all my ancestors in me: my mineral ancestors, plant ancestors, mammal ancestors, and human ancestors. My ancestors are always present, alive in every cell of my body, and I play a…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living

"I see that this body—made of the four elements—is not really me, and I am not limited by this body. I am the whole of the river of life, of blood ancestors and spiritual ancestors, that has been cont…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living

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2. Do the Work

By: Steven Pressfield

3.97

Format: 109 pages, Audio CD

Do the Work Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it's not the difficulty of the project, or the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • writing
"The enemy is Resistance."

-Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

"Start before you're ready."

-Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

"Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart."

-Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

"The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it."

-Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

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3. Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

By: Martin Ford

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine--… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tende…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

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5. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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6. The World As I See It

By: Albert Einstein

3.88

Format: 0 pages,

"The World as I See It" is a treasury of the thoughts and life observations of one of the greatest … read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Free Will

By: Sam Harris

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more

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  • nonfiction

8. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more

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9. One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives

By: Bernd Heinrich

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding "marvelous, mind-altering… read more

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10. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more

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11. Blue Horses

By: Mary Oliver

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more

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12. The Conquest of Happiness

By: Bertrand Russell , None

4.20

Format: None pages,

The books of Bertrand Russell are a modern substitute for the Bible. - TIME "The Conquest of Happin… read more

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13. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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14. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more

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"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

15. Outer Dark

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more

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16. The Bhagavad Gita

By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more

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17. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District

By: James Rebanks

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more

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18. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

By: Simon Winchester

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

19. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.06

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • essays
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"

-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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20. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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21. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris

22. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

By: Annaka Harris

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fas… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. 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
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24. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

By: Margaret Renkl

4.30

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • essays
"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

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25. 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
Cover of The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings by Sy Montgomery

26. 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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  • nonfiction
  • environment
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27. 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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  • nonfiction
  • environment
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28. A Naturalist At Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich

By: Bernd Heinrich

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of the finest scientist/writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in cl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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29. The Way of Imagination

By: Scott Russell Sanders

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prize-winning essayist turns to the imagination as a spiritual guide and material method of living … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • environment
  • essays
Cover of Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writers Journey Through Greece by Mark Haskell Smith

30. Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writers Journey Through Greece

By: Mark Haskell Smith

3.59

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

"Rude Talk in Athens is brave, brilliant, and incredibly funny. There are loads of very specific ch… read more

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Cover of Change the Story, Save the World: Efficiency Is the Name of the Game by Moritz Davidesko

31. Change the Story, Save the World: Efficiency Is the Name of the Game

By: Moritz Davidesko

4.17

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Now a USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-seller!A WORLD SHAPED BY HOW THE HUMAN NARRATIVE HAS … read more

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19 Top nonfiction books like The Way of Imagination by Scott Russell Sanders

Transform Your Habits

The Art Of Living

Thich Nhat Hanh

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Do the Work

Steven Pressfield

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Martin Ford

3.64

Transform Your Habits

No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

Thich Nhat Hanh

4.25

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6 Best philosophy books like The Oak Papers by James Canton

Transform Your Habits

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

The Gift

Hafez , Daniel Ladinsky

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

4.04

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