Essays
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$5.95 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience.
In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03, 2012
- ISBN10: 0451532163
- Language: English
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
$22.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
A Washington Post bestseller
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a “Best Essay Collection of the Decade” by Literary Hub
A Book Riot “Favorite Summer Read of 2020”
A Food Tank … [more below]- Author: Kimmerer, Robin Wall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1571313567
- Language: English
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A Year in the Maine Woods
$18.99 Add to cartEscapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich’s dream was to focus on the riches of one small place–a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains…. [more below]
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 08 1995
- ISBN10: 0201489392
- Language: English
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Desert Solitaire
$22.00 Add to cartHailed by The New York Times as “a passionately felt, deeply poetic book,” the moving autobiographical work of Edward Abbey, considered the Thoreau of the American West, and his passion for the southw
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15, 1990
- ISBN10: 0671695886
- Language: English
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Fermentation: A Natural History
$18.00 Read moreA thoughtful introduction to the wonders of fermentation from the James Beard Award and a New York Times bestselling author of Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation.
Fermentation is a magical- Series: Studies in Nature
- Author: Katz, Sandor Ellix
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1643265512
- Language: English
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Tending the Vines: Black Abundance in Eight Plants
$30.00 Read moreThis standout creative nonfiction debut explores the lives and histories of plants considered nonnative or invasive as metaphors for the Black experience in America.
In Tending the Vines, Ashia S. Aj
- Author: Ajani, Ashia S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1643264761
- Language: English
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The Island Within
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1990 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, nominated for the American Book Award, and named by Booklist as an Editor’s Choice, this is Nelson’s lovely and luminously wise account of his e… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 1991
- ISBN10: 067973239X
- Language: English
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Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water
$16.99 Add to cartIn these twenty elegant essays, a philosopher and amateur naturalist meanders along the rivers and streams of the american West-and muses on love, loss, aging, motherhood, happiness, the art of poking… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0156004615
- Language: English
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The Mountains of California
$22.00 Add to cartWhen John Muir traveled to California in 1868, he found the pristine mountain ranges that would inspire his life’s work. The Mountains of California is the culmination of the ten years Muir spent in t… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758194
- Language: English
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Walden: Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
$24.00 Add to cartA deluxe edition of Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking environmentalist masterpiece, including an introduction and annotations by renowned social and environmental critic Bill McKibben
A Beacon Clas- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0807024104
- Language: English
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Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology
$21.95 Read moreDiscover nature-based devotional practices for rekindling humanity’s ancient covenant with the living world–one rooted in reverence and love–and restoring our sacred bond with Earth.
Drawing from de- Author: Vaughan-Lee, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1645475107
- Language: English
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I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships
$28.99 Read moreA story of love, marriage, and flowers from beloved writer and gardening enthusiast Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
Six months before her wedding, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s fianc? broke off their engagement. S- Author: Sawchyn, Alysia Li Ying
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1250397618
- Language: English
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Spring Rain: A Life Lived in Gardens
$17.95 Add to cart“Marc Hamer knows how to live–simply, sparely, reverently, abundantly. Spring Rain is a tonic for the soul.”–Sy Montgomery, author of How to Be A Good Creature
From the beloved author of How to Catc- Author: Hamer, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1778402763
- Language: English
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Live Each Season as It Passes
$24.95 Add to cartSince the time of Eden, God has called humanity to be in relationship with nature–to live with the earth, not merely on the earth. on earth but to live with earth. Live Each Season as It Passes is Da… [more below]
- Author: Cooperrider, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0829804269
- Language: English
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Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World
$27.95 Add to cartWhen is a weed not a weed? When is a bug not a pest? Science writer Caroline Sutton reveals the secrets of the natural world in this “astonishing” collection of essays.
With this fascinating and eye-o- Author: Sutton, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1639640819
- Language: English
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Something in the Woods Loves You
$30.00 Add to cartAn inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health
Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his li- Author: Anderson, Jarod K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1643262297
- Language: English
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A Countryman’s Journal: Views of Life and Nature from a Maine Coastal Farm
$18.95 Read moreIn A Countryman’s Journal, originally published in 1981, author Roy Barrette describes life on his small coastal Maine farm. Equipped with a few barnyard animals, a library full of his favorite liter… [more below]
- Author: Barrette, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1952143446
- Language: English
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Where the Grass Still Sings: Stories of Insects and Interconnection
$44.93 Add to cartThrough narrative, verse, and art, Where the Grass Still Sings celebrates the many tiny creatures that play crucial roles in our ecosystems–as well as the people on the front lines of the fight to sa
- Series: Animalibus
- Author: Swan, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0271096950
- Language: English
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Woodlands of the Mind: Rambles Through Campus Forests
$32.95 Add to cartThroughout the eastern United States, hundreds of colleges and universities own acres of forested lands. These holdings range from modest parcels like Virginia Tech’s eleven-acre Stadium Woods to more
- Author: O’Donnell, Kevin E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0820375578
- Language: English
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Naming Nature: A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities for Word Lovers
$24.99 Add to cart“A GLORIOUS BOOK” -Dr. Jane Goodall
A lyrical journey through the world’s languages that reveals how humanity has named–and been shaped by–the natural world, complete with exquisite archival artwork- Author: Barron, T. A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881608514
- Language: English
