American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
10 best books like American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation (Eric Rutkow): The Overstory, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, Isis Unveiled, End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica, Oak: The Frame of Civilization, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 2, The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia, The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from...
| Author | Colin Tudge |
| ISBN | 1400050367 |
There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field.
From the tallest to the...
| Author | Penney Peirce |
| ISBN | 1582702128 |
Because science has long taught us to rely on what we can see and touch, we often don't notice that our spirit, thoughts, emotions, and body are all made of energy. Everything is vibrating. In fact, each of us has a personal vibration that communicates who we are to the world and helps shape our reality....
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
| Author | Richard Preston |
| ISBN | 1400064899 |
Preston looks at the very tallest trees on our planet and the people who seek them out, climb them and study them. This was a very engaging trip into a very unfamiliar territory. One amazing thing was that knowledge of the whereabouts of earth’s wooden giants is held by a very few individuals. The people...
| Author | H.P. Blavatsky |
| ISBN | 0911500030 |
Blavatsky...
dear occultist,
... was a genius and the fact that she wrote so brilliantly in English, which was not even her native language, is amazing. Alas, the thesis in Vol. 1, while still valid and which involves her evidence and arguments that science is lacking when it endeavors...
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 0792268369 |
End of the Earth brings to life the waters of the richest whale feeding grounds in the world, the wandering albatross with its 11-foot wingspan arching through the sky, and the habits of every variety of seal, walrus, petrel, and penguin in the area, all with boundless and contagious inquisitiveness....
| Author | William Bryant Logan |
| ISBN | 0393327787 |
Professional arborist and award-winning nature writer William Bryant Logan deftly relates the delightful history of the reciprocal relationship between humans and oak trees since time immemorial—a profound link that has almost been forgotten. From the ink of Bach’s cantatas, to the first...
| Author | Drunvalo Melchizedek |
The sacred Flower of Life pattern, the primary geometric generator of all physical form, is explored in even more depth in this volume, the second half of the Flower of Life workshop. The proportions of the human body, the nuances of human consciousness, the sizes and distances of the stars, planets...
| Author | Paul Devereux |
| ISBN | 0140195408 |
Many people assume that experimentation with hallucinogens began with Timothy Leary and the psychedelic revolution of the fifties and sixties. In fact, as this illuminating study demonstrates, psychedelics have been used by human societies in every part of the world for ritual and spiritual purposes...
| Author | Mario Livio |
| ISBN | 0471399760 |
Advance Praise for The Accelerating Universe""The Accelerating Universe" is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the human mind in its quest for beauty in all things."
--Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams
"This...
Blackstock's Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant
| Author | Gregory L. Blackstock |
| ISBN | 1568985797 |
Modern life is an ever-accelerating barrage of people, buildings, vehicles, creatures, and things. How much can a curious mind take in? And what can it do with all the data? Gregory L. Blackstock, a retired Seattle pot washer, draws order out of all the chaos with a pencil, a black marker, and some crayons.Blackstock...
