13 best-selling science books like This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

If you liked the science plot in This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Similar categories in Ed Yong's I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

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• health
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Similar categories in James Fadiman's The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

• science
• nonfiction
• psychology
• health

Similar categories in Tim Flannery's The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

• audiobook
• plants
• nonfiction
• nature
• 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 Terence McKenna's Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

Similar categories in None's Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

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• nonfiction
• psychology
• health

"the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span "

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"...our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia..."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"When sleep is abundant, minds flourish. When it is deficient, they don't."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

Similar categories in Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

Similar categories in None's Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

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• history
• nonfiction
• 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 Mary Roach's Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

• audiobook
• history
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Similar categories in Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

• science
• history
• memoir
• health
• psychology
• food
• nonfiction
• plants
• nature
• audiobook

"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

Similar categories in Peter Attia's Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

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• health
• psychology
• nonfiction
• science

Similar categories in Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

• audiobook
• memoir
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

"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 Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

• science
• history
• health
• nonfiction
• nature
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ed Yong's An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

• audiobook
• psychology
• nonfiction
• nature
• science

"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

• nonfiction
• history
• audiobook

"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

• nonfiction
• history
• psychology
• audiobook

"Without language, there are no "cults"."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"Some say people who join cults are “lost."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"With words, we breathe reality into being."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Similar categories in Rick Rubin's The Creative Act: A Way of Being book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

• nonfiction
• psychology
• audiobook

"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Similar categories in James Nestor's Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

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• health
• psychology
• nonfiction
• science

Similar categories in Brian C. Muraresku's The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name book and Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants

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• history
• psychology
• nonfiction
• science

"...there’s only one thing the Vatican finds more suspicious than drugs. And that’s women."

-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

"Over twenty-five hundred years into this experiment we call the West, is there any chance of reconciling the two competing worldviews that clashed so dramatically at the end of the fourth century AD?…"

-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name