One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World
10 best books like One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World (Gordon Hempton): Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, The Empty Ocean, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout, The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes: A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness, The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder, The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest
| Author | Mark Hertsgaard |
| ISBN | 0618826122 |
A fresh take on climate change by a renowned journalist driven to protect his daughter, your kids, and the next generation who’ll inherit the problem. For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for outlets including theNew Yorker, NPR, Time, Vanity Fair, and The Nation....
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest....
| Author | Richard Ellis |
| ISBN | 1559636378 |
In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many forms of sea life that humans have fished, hunted,...
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
| Author | Dayton Duncan |
| ISBN | 0307268969 |
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved,...
A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
| Author | Carl Safina |
| ISBN | 0307887359 |
Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation. Traveling across the Gulf to make sense of an ever-changing story...
| Author | Bernie Krause |
| ISBN | 0316086878 |
Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where...
| Author | Barbara Hurd |
| ISBN | 0618215123 |
In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In...
| Author | Robert Kull |
| ISBN | 1577316746 |
Years after losing his lower right leg in a motorcycle crash, Robert Kull traveled to a remote island in Patagonia’s coastal wilderness with equipment and supplies to live alone for a year. He sought to explore the effects of deep solitude on the body and mind and to find the spiritual answers he’d...
| Author | Richard Louv |
| ISBN | 1565125819 |
For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child in the Woods, urges us to change our vision of the future, suggesting that if we reconceive environmentalism...
The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest
| Author | William Dietrich |
| ISBN | 0140177507 |
Phenomenal. One of the first times I have really taken time to listen to diverse perspectives in the conservation/preservation debate and suddenly found myself on the side of the loggers in Forks,WA. It made me feel more connected to the diverse perspectives people come from in relating to the natural...
| Author | Sara Bonnett Stein |
| ISBN | 0395709407 |
The day is not far off when we will be forced to admit that suburbs are bad for us.
Its symptoms are varied, but the root problem can be stated simply: suburbia encourages connections neither with our neighbors, nor with the land. Ecology is sterilized by permanent real-estate-listing-style...
Gourmands and health-conscious consumers alike have fallen for fish; last year per capita consumption in the United States hit an all-time high. Packed with nutrients and naturally low in fat, fish is the last animal we can still eat in good conscience. Or can we?
In this vivid, eye-opening...
| Author | Loren Eiseley |
| ISBN | 0803267355 |
Toward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. Weaving together memoir, philosophical reflection, and his always keen observations of the natural world, Loren Eiseley’s essays in...
| Author | Thomas McGuane |
| ISBN | 0224061011 |
Thomas McGuane's obsession with fish has taken him from the river in his backyard to the holiest waters of the fly-fisher's world. As he travels the fish take him to many and various subjects ripe for random speculation: rods and reels, the classification of anglers according to the flies they prefer,...
Cost of 24 linear feet of 1x12 prime cut pine:
$41.68
Cost of 10 cinder blocks:
$13.40
Cost of New American stain, 60 grit and 150 grit sandpaper:
about $10.00
Value in being able to use the phrase "retro-industrial chic" antecedent to banging some half-inbred North Texas...
| Author | Gary Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1619024489 |
The nature writing of Gary Ferguson arises out of intimate experience. He trekked 500 miles through Yellowstone to write Walking Down the Wild and spent a season in the field at a wilderness therapy program for Shouting at the Sky. He journeyed 250 miles on foot for Hawks Rest and followed through the...
The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold
| Author | Gretel Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 1400034353 |
This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter–for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul–and also out of the fear that our “democracy of gratification” has irreparably altered the climate.
Over...
Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry
| Author | Scott Huler |
| ISBN | 1400048850 |
"The Beaufort (Wind) Scale and how a 19th Century Admiral turned science into Poetry." Exultant writing about a fairly boring subject (history of sea navigation), that made it come alive. It is about writing and words, which I love, and about knowing moments of intense joy by observing the world in openness...
Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests
| Author | Derrick Jensen |
| ISBN | 1931498458 |
Derrick Jensen, prize-winning author of "A Language Older than Words" and "The Culture of Make Believe," and George Draffan, activist, researcher, and co-author with Jensen of "Railroads & Clearcuts," collaborate again to expose the escalating global war on trees. Ever since Gilgamesh cut...
Temperance Creek: A Memoir
| Author | Pamela Royes |
| ISBN | 1619027305 |
In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents’ homes. This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves. In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell’s Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent’s world and looking...
Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves
| Author | John Kroger |
| ISBN | 0374100152 |
"Convictions "is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States attorneys, the federal prosecutors who possess sweeping authority to investigate and prosecute the nation's most dangerous criminals. John...
Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape
| Author | Tom Wessels |
| ISBN | 0881509183 |
Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down?
Now...
| Author | Rosie McKinley |
| ISBN | 1444709313 |
What a moving tale of a difficult childhood. It goes to show that no matter what religion or culture you are born into the struggles and difficulties can be similar. Rosie was born into a gypsy life, and this was a struggle from day one. This tale gives a unique insight into a culture you may not always hear/read...
