18 best-selling nature books like Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

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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…

"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 strong, complex web"

-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 of trees, soils stripped of nature's complexity..."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

If you liked the nature plot in Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

By: David George Haskell

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"Here is a book to nourish the spirit. The Songs of Treesis a powerful argument against the ways in… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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2. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

By: John Vaillant

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more

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  • nature
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Tim Flannery, Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst, Suzanne Simard

3. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more

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  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • 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

4. Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

By: Vandana Shiva , Thich Nhat Hanh , Mary Evelyn Tucker , Wendell Berry , Thomas Berry , Richard Rohr , Joanna Macy , Brian Swimme , David R. Loy , Sandra Ingerman , Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee , None , None

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Showing the deep connection between our present ecological crisis and our lack of awareness of the … read more

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5. 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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6. 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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7. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • 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

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8. 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 Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx

9. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees by Douglas W. Tallamy

10. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.35

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy

11. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

12. 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

Similar categories in Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest book and Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • ecology
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • 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

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13. The Overstory

By: Richard Powers

4.12

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more

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  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

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14. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • 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

Cover of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

15. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben

16. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

By: Peter Wohlleben

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more

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  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."

-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"

-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

Cover of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

17. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

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

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
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Cover of The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben

19. The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them

By: Peter Wohlleben

4.03

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

From the international bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees An illuminating manifesto on … read more

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  • audiobook
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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence

20. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

By: Ben Rawlence

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • biology
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  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature by Peter Wohlleben

21. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature

By: Peter Wohlleben

3.74

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more

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"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

16 best-selling audiobook books like Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

3.65

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Margaret Renkl

4.37

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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

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