The Long-Legged House
10 best books like The Long-Legged House (Wendell Berry): Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World, Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song, The Sound of Mountain Water, Life in the Undergrowth, The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, Wendell Berry: Life and Work, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, A Nest Is Noisy: (Nature Books for Kids, Children's Books Ages 3-5, Award Winning Children's Books), The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery, Snakes
| Author | Andrea Barnet |
| ISBN | 0062310747 |
A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography
Four influential women we thought we knew well—Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters—and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement
This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly...
Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song
| Author | David Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0465071368 |
The astonishing richness of birdsong is both an aesthetic and a scientific mystery. Evolutionists have never been able to completely explain why birdsong is so inventive and why many species devote so many hours to singing. The standard explanations of defending territories and attracting mates...
| Author | Wallace Stegner |
| ISBN | 0140266747 |
A book of timeless importance about the American West, our "native home of hope."
The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner...
| Author | David Attenborough |
| ISBN | 0691127034 |
An insect disguises itself as a flower or leaf. A spider lassoes its prey. A beetle persuades a bee to care for its young. This beautifully illustrated book by veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough offers a rare glimpse into the secret life of invertebrates, the world's tiniest--and most fascinating--creatures.
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The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| ISBN | 1571313060 |
The western mindset is arguably one of the greatest threats to the world’s ecological balance. Corporatism and globalization are two of the obvious villains here, but what part does human nature play in the problem? Since its inception in 1982, Orion magazine has been a forum for looking beyond the...
Wendell Berry: Life and Work
| Author | Jason Peters |
| ISBN | 0813124425 |
Essayist, social critic, poet, "mad farmer," novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels. With his unique perspective and far-reaching vision, Berry poses complex questions about...
| Author | Robert Finch |
| ISBN | 0393027996 |
Man's encounter with nature has produced some of the great literature of our time. Darwin's ruminations on the Galapagos Islands, Melville's exploration of the "whiteness of the whale, " and Thoreau's communion with Walden Pond are monuments in the history of writing and thought. "The Norton Book...
| Author | Dianna Hutts Aston |
| ISBN | 1452127131 |
From the award-winning creators of An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, A Butterfly Is Patient, and A Rock Is Lively comes this gorgeous and informative look at the fascinating world of nests. From tiny bee hummingbird nests to orangutan nests high in the rainforest canopy, an incredible variety of nests...
| Author | Sandra Markle |
| ISBN | 1467705926 |
Honeybees are a crucial part of our food chain. As they gather nectar from flowers to make sweet honey, these bees also play an important role in pollination, helping some plants produce fruit. But large numbers of honeybees are disappearing every year . . . and no one knows why. Is a fungus killing them?...
| Author | Nic Bishop |
| ISBN | 0545206383 |
YIKES!!! Join naturalist Nic Bishop for a closer look at scaly, scary snakes!
Snakes are scaly, scary, silent predators. They use powerful venom or crushing strength to overwhelm their victims. Then they swallow them whole!
With breathtaking full-page images, Sibert Medal-winning...
| Author | Rachel Carson |
| ISBN | 0807085472 |
Making America Great Again
From “Mr. Day’s Dismissal”: A Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, April 22, 1953.
In 1952 Republicans won the White House and immediately began dismantling environmental protections in favor of big business concerns. Day was fired as Secretary...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068845 |
From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes "the creatures, with their / thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their / infallible sense of what their lives / are meant to be."
In The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, Mary Oliver...
Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations. And as author and ecologist Mike Shanahan proclaims, “The best could be yet to come.”
Gods, Wasps and Stranglers weaves together the mythology, history...
The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world
Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the...
| 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...
Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life
| Author | Susan Middleton |
| ISBN | 1419710079 |
In Spineless, acclaimed photographer Susan Middleton explores the mysterious and surprising world of marine invertebrates, which represent more than 98 percent of the known animal species in the ocean. They are also astonishingly diverse in their shapes, patterns, textures, and colors—in...
| Author | Marilyn Singer |
| ISBN | 1452101205 |
Under the desert's cracked and barren skin, spadefoot toads are waiting for rain. In the endless black of the deepest caves, blind fish find their way. Even in the frozen hearts of glaciers, ice worms by the billion flourish. In this fascinating look at fourteen animals who defy the odds by thriving in...
The New Sylva: A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century
| Author | Gabriel Hemery |
| ISBN | 1408835444 |
In 1664, the horticulturist and diarist John Evelyn wrote Sylva, the first comprehensive study of British trees. It was also the world's earliest forestry book, and the first book ever published by the Royal Society. Evelyn's elegant prose has a lot to tell us today, but the world has changed dramatically...
A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems
A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm...
Overview: A New Perspective of Earth
A stunning and unique collection of satellite images of Earth that offer an unexpected look at humanity, derived from the wildly popular Daily Overview Instagram project.
Inspired by the “Overview Effect”—a sensation that astronauts experience when given the opportunity to look...
Becoming Native to This Place
| Author | Wes Jackson |
| ISBN | 1887178112 |
Mr. Jackson certainly makes some interesting arguments, ones with which I concur a great deal. However, the book itself is written at a high level and is, therefore, going to be unavailable to certain people. I know that sounds elitist, but a big part of the problem with environmental writing is that...
| Author | Graeme Gibson |
| ISBN | 0385524595 |
In a wonderfully diverse selection of writings and gorgeous illustrations, this stunning companion to "The Bedside Book of Birds" explores the relationship between predators and their prey.
The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on earth...
| Author | Sandra Steingraber |
| ISBN | 0738213993 |
Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor;...
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 0805089373 |
In the Middle Ages, people believed that insects were evil, born from mud in a process called spontaneous generation. Maria Merian was only a child, but she disagreed. She watched carefully as caterpillars spun themselves cocoons, which opened to reveal summer birds, or butterflies and moths. Maria...
