22 must-read nonfiction books like The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century by Mary Evelyn Tucker, Thomas Berry

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Similar categories in Sue Monk Kidd's The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

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• nonfiction
• spirituality

"But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

"Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

". . . in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

"Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

Similar categories in Thomas Keating's Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• theology

Similar categories in Richard Rohr's The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• theology
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting...you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic."

-Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

Similar categories in Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Arundhati Roy's Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

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Similar categories in Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• nonfiction
• environment
• nature

Similar categories in Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• theology
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• environment
• nature

Similar categories in Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Similar categories in Michael J. Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• philosophy
• nonfiction

"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

Similar categories in David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Similar categories in Cynthia Bourgeault's Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Similar categories in David George Haskell's The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

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• environment
• nature

"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 Frank Herbert's Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5) book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

"Tedbirler al, ama onların gölgesinde yaşama."

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

"Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite."

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

"We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us, do we?"

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

Similar categories in Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• 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

Similar categories in David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• philosophy
• nonfiction

"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Similar categories in Alice Hoffman's The Invisible Hour book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

"A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read."

-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

"Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again."

-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

Similar categories in Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• environment
• nature

"What makes a young thing like you so tired of life?"

-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

"All these humans have left no space for anything else."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

"There is nothing so disturbing as a creature born to flight being bound to dull lifelessness."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

"I think there is meaning, and it lives in nurturing, in making life sweeter for ourselves, and for those around us."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

Similar categories in Lyanda Lynn Haupt's Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• nature
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• environment

Similar categories in Peter Wohlleben's The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• nonfiction
• environment
• nature

"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."

-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature

Similar categories in Martin Shaw's Courting the Wild Twin book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• nonfiction
• spirituality
• nature

Similar categories in Karen Armstrong's Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• theology
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• environment
• nature

Similar categories in Brian D. McLaren's Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• theology

Similar categories in Victoria Loorz's Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred (Church of the Wild, 1) book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• theology
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• environment
• nature

"I longed for church to be a place where Mystery is experienced, not explained."

-Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred (Church of the Wild, 1)

Similar categories in John Philip Newell's Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• theology
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• environment
• nature

Similar categories in Patty Krawec's Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• nature

"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Similar categories in Monica Guzmán's I Never Thought of It That Way book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• philosophy
• nonfiction

Similar categories in John O'Donohue's Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• nature

"Most of us are moving through such an undergrowth of excess that we cannot sense the shape of ourselves any more."

-John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

"I feel that fear is negative wonder. It is the point at which wonder begins to consume itself and scrape off the essence of things."

-John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

"We ask that streams of Easter light might flow into the intimacy and privacy of our hearts this morning, to heal us and encourage us and enable us to make again a new beginning."

-John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

"One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you."

-John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

Similar categories in Liz Carlisle's Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming book and Mary Evelyn Tucker's The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

• nonfiction
• environment
• nature