Conversations with Trees: An Intimate Ecology
By: Stephanie Kaza
3.94
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
From a pioneering thinker in the field of religion and ecology, a collection of evocative meditatio…
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1. Wilderness Tips
By: Margaret Atwood
3.82
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole li… read more
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"What she read was a series of short connected lyrics, “Isis in Darkness."-Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
"Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it."-Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
"He will exist for her at least, he will be created by her, he will have a place in her mythology after all."-Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
"Her life began to seem long. Her adrenalin was running out. Soon she would be thirty, and all she could see ahead was more of the same."-Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
2. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
3. Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
By: Jack Kornfield , Daniel J. Siegel , Rick Hanson , Richard Mendius
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like any… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Thunderhead
By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mys… read more
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5. Dear Life: Stories
By: Alice Munro
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more
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6. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
7. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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8. The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
By: Kao Kalia Yang
3.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrif… read more
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9. 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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10. A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014
By: Wendell Berry
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
More than thirty-five years ago, when the weather allowed, Wendell Berry began spending his sabbath… read more
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11. 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
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12. Commonwealth
By: Ann Patchett
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells t… read more
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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
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"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
14. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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- nonfiction
15. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
16. Thin Places
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
3.83
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and social history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s sto… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"Naming things, in the language that should always have been offered to you, is a way to sculpt loss. A way to protect that which we still have."-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we …"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognises no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter…"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
17. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
18. Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
By: Jenara Nerenberg
3.84
Format: 244 pages, ebook
A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensit… read more
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- nonfiction
"What happens when we stop pathologizing difference?"-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
"Many women latch onto language from popular psychology, such as "panic attack," when often they are instead experiencing sensory overwhelm."-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
"Despite what the words "attention deficit" imply, ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but rather a challenge of regulating it at will or on demand."-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
"High stimulation is both exciting and confusing for people with ADHD, because they can get overwhelmed and overstimulated easily without realizing they are approaching that point."-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
19. To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycle… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"When the honeymoon phase is over, what's left is the continuous choosing of the other person."-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"The life before had happened to me as childhood happens to everyone. The mark of adulthood is when we happen to life."-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning. I…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"I was in the zone, each day biking farther than the last, and becoming ever more accustomed to my solitude. An entire day passed without me speaking to a single human. I did speak though, just to the…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
20. Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
By: Qing Li
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shinrin = Forest Yoku = Bathing Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing is the practice of spending time … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"Children who have fun in nature will become adults to care for and protect it. If we let our children play outside now, they will become the green architects of the future…"-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
"In the end, it is our children’s relationship with the natural world that determines its future. If we let our children go into the forest, they will become adults who will protect it."-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
"Czy zwróciłeś kiedyś uwagę, jak przyjemnie chodzi się boso po piasku, trawie albo ziemi?Nie bierze się to tylko z ulgi po zdjęciu sztywnych butów albo zrzuceniu wysokich obcasów. Kiedy dotykasz podło…"-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
"Wszyscy znamy cudowny zapach lasu po ulewie. Kiedy długo nie pada, w glebie i na skałach gromadzą się olejki roślinne. To jeden ze sposobów roślin na przetrwanie okresów suszy. Podczas deszczu woda u…"-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
21. Conversations with Trees: An Intimate Ecology
By: Stephanie Kaza
3.94
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
From a pioneering thinker in the field of religion and ecology, a collection of evocative meditatio… read more
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- nature
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science nature
- environment
