8 Top science books like Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World by Kathleen Dean Moore

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Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

By: Kathleen Dean Moore

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dea…

"When you are quiet, the silence blows against your mind and etches away everything that is soft and unimportant. What is left is what is real: pure awareness and the very hardest questions."

-Kathleen Dean Moore, Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

"When you are quiet, the silence blows against your mind and etches away everything that is soft and unimportant. What is left is what is real: pure awareness and the very hardest questions."

-Kathleen Dean Moore, Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

"When you are quiet, the silence blows against your mind and etches away everything that is soft and unimportant. What is left is what is real: pure awareness and the very hardest questions."

-Kathleen Dean Moore, Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

If you liked the science plot in Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World by Kathleen Dean Moore , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

By: Donald L. Miller

4.18

Format: 671 pages, Hardcover

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more

Similar categories in Donald L. Miller's Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • nonfiction
"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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2. Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River

By: David Owen

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes The Colorado … read more

Similar categories in David Owen's Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

3. 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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4. 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 Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • science
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5. Meet Me at the Museum

By: Anne Youngson

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ... When the curator of a Danish mus… read more

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"Our letters have meant so much to us because we have both arrived at the same point in our lives. More behind us than ahead of us."

-Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

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6. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more

Similar categories in Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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7. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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8. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

By: Trish O'Kane

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, socia… read more

Similar categories in Trish O'Kane's Birding to Change the World: A Memoir book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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9. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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10. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

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"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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11. The Bear

By: Andrew Krivak

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last t… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Krivak's The Bear book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • animals
  • nature
"Sleep is the only balm I know."

-Andrew Krivak, The Bear

"But we don't get to choose when we leave here to sleep on the mountain. We all have to sleep on the mountain one day. Even the bear. Even when we struggle with all our will not to."

-Andrew Krivak, The Bear

"Her father told her once that all animals were creatures of habit and so, too, were they. The difference was she could choose to change her habits. Animals changed when they were afraid. Change befor…"

-Andrew Krivak, The Bear

"Imagine it from here everything you say in front of you — lake, trees, the mountains to the edge of the horizon — was water. Endless blue water of waves in constant motion. That’s what the ocean look…"

-Andrew Krivak, The Bear

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12. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

By: Lydia Millet

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Millet's We Loved It All: A Memory of Life book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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13. The Busy Body

By: Kemper Donovan

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about pe… read more

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14. Fight No More: Stories

By: Lydia Millet

3.90

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Pick A Library Journal Best Book of 2018 “Full of joys on ever… read more

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15. Around the World in 80 Trees

By: Jonathan Drori

4.57

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Trees are one of humanity's most constant yet most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tr… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Drori's Around the World in 80 Trees book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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16. Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church

By: Diane Langberg

4.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Power has a God-given role in human relationships and institutions, but it can lead to abuse when u… read more

Similar categories in Diane Langberg's Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • nonfiction
"We are God’s dissidents every time we respond in offices, in communities, in churches, in schools, and in any areas of abuse. We do this as a part of systems, many of them with good and godly aims. W…"

-Diane Langberg, Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church

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17. A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories

By: Daniel Mason

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner, a collection … read more

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18. Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes

By: Nicky Beer

3.97

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is illusion―a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem―the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a… read more

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19. Cloudspotting for Beginners

By: Gavin Pretor-Pinney

4.52

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully illustrated guide to clouds and the sky for inspiring and educating curious minds wit… read more

Similar categories in Gavin Pretor-Pinney's Cloudspotting for Beginners book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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20. Haunt Sweet Home

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.47

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more

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21. Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

By: Kathleen Dean Moore

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dea… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World book and Kathleen Dean Moore's Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

  • music
  • ecology
  • animals
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"When you are quiet, the silence blows against your mind and etches away everything that is soft and unimportant. What is left is what is real: pure awareness and the very hardest questions."

-Kathleen Dean Moore, Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

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3.44

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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4.54

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Paul Harding

3.78

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