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

10 best books like The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors (David George Haskell): The Overstory, Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Land, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter, Underland, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

The Overstory
AuthorRichard Powers
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...
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Land
AuthorLauret Savoy
ISBN1619025736
Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
AuthorRobin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN1571313354
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together...
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
AuthorRobin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN0870714996
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's...
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter
AuthorColin Tudge
ISBN1400050367
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...
Underland
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
ISBN0393242145
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
AuthorBen Goldfarb
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North...
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
AuthorRichard Preston
ISBN1400064899
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...
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
AuthorLauren E. Oakes
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...
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
AuthorPeter Wohlleben
ISBN1771643889
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben.

Nature is full of surprises: deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can...
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