Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

8 best books like Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden (Diane Ackerman): Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century, Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran, Down the Garden Path, Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society, History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Author	Annie Dillard
ISBN	0072434171

An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...

Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century

Author	James Howard Kunstler
ISBN	0684837374

In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not merely a symptom of a troubled culture, but one of the...

Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran

Author

Jason Elliot

Highly memorable description of the lives of ordinary people in 21st century Iran. I have a memory like a sieve so it says a great deal about this book that I remember so much even though I read it 5 or so years ago. It left a huge impression on me. Every time I hear or read about Iran, I remember that ordinary...

Down the Garden Path

Author	Beverley Nichols
ISBN	0881927104

Rating Clarification: 4.5 Stars

This is one of those books that would have forever remained hidden from my reading world without the auspices of Goodreads in general and my GR buddy Leslie in particular (to Leslie - thanks for your squee-worthy review which led me to read this).

Written...

Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth

Author

Václav Havel

Contents:
pt. 1. Six texts by Václav Havel --
Letter to Dr Gustáv Husák --
The power of the powerless --
Six asides about culture --
Politics and conscience --
Thriller --
An anatomy of reticence --

pt. 2. Sixteen texts for Václav Havel --
Catastrophe...

Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography

Author	Richard Rodríguez
ISBN	0670025305

An award-winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9/11

Hailed in The Washington Post as "one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America," Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing...

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

Author	Eugene H. Peterson
ISBN	0830822577

As a society, we are no less obsessed with the immediate than when Eugene Peterson first wrote this Christian classic. If anything, email and the Internet may have intensified our quest for the quick fix. But Peterson's time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same--a long obedience...

History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

Author	James Mooney
ISBN	0914875191

Originally published as two separate volumes by the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees has enduring significance for both Native Americans and non-Indian people. The book contains the full texts of James Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee (1900)...