Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Wild Trees - Abridged

By: Richard Preston

Narrated by: Richard Preston

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained -- the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. The biggest redwoods are over a thousand years old, rising more than thirty-five stories in what's left of the once-vast ancient redwood forest. Believed... Read more

Crossing Open Ground - Abridged

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: Barry Lopez

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crossing Open Ground is a collection of essays by nature writer Barry Lopez. It's food for the spirit from perhaps the finest nature writer of our time. Read more

Silent Spring

By: Rachel Carson

Narrated by: Kaiulani Lee

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1962, Silent Spring can singlehandedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large. "Silent Spring came as a cry in the... Read more

Come On Seabiscuit!

By: Ralph Moody

Narrated by: Jim Weiss

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Who would have believed that a knobby-kneed little colt named Seabiscuit would become one of the most celebrated racehorses of all time? Although Seabiscuit was the grandson of the legendary Man O' War, he was neither handsome nor graceful. His head was too big, his legs were too short, and his gallop was awkward.During the depths of the Great... Read more

Entering Into Relationship With Everything

By: Derrick Jensen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jensen notes: a principal problem with Western thought is that it views the natural world as a metaphor and nature as a commodity. He argues that the key to change and life sustaining action is rooted in seeing nature as sentient – a being worthy and deserving of personal relationship. Read more

Dancing In The Rain

By: Brad Lancaster

Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

By returning the water to the same watershed, Brad Lancaster creates a cycle of abundance that sustains not just one family, but the neighborhood and the entire ecosystem as well. He adds solar power into the mix, and plants food-bearing native shade trees to cool the home. The result is an oasis in the desert, with a model that can be applied... Read more

From Exploitation to Friendship: Creating Eco-Tourism

By: Doug Thompson, Robin Kobaly & Diana Hart

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As Robin Kobaly explains, "When we come back from wilderness, that's when we seem to bring our best inspirations to help humankind, and our own selves, too. If we don't have that wilderness to go to, that refuge and that wellspring, we will not be as good a people, a society, or a race." Read more

Of Animal Grace And A Spa For A Pig

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Enter the wonders of the animal world, and rediscover your own. Sy Montgomery is in love with animals, but more than that, she is in awe of who they are and what they have to teach us. Read more

The Great Deluge - Abridged

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Kyf Brewer

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama. First was the... Read more

A Deep Ecology of the Heart

By: John Seed

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

John Seed travels the world in service to the earth. As a founding father of the Deep Ecology movement, he’s noticed that “we speak of ‘the environment,’ which makes it sound as though this is something that’s far away from us. But if we hold our breath for a few minutes while we consider the matter, we quickly realize that ‘the environment’ is... Read more

Salt

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance—salt, the only rock humans eat—and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and... Read more

Hiking For Dreams to Come True

By: Jeff Alt

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How does taking a 218 mile hike in the wilderness help relieve depression and grief?  Jeff Alt, author and motivational speaker, excels at combining outdoor adventures with worthy causes, having trekked the 2,160 mile Appalachian Trail as a fundraiser for people with disabilities and the 218-mile John Muir Trail as a depression awareness campaign. Read more

The Wild And Timeless Poet

By: Thomas Rain Crowe

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“You don’t need to go looking for answers. Probably the best way to find them is to stop looking for them, in the sense of being still and being in one place.” These words from Thomas Rain Crowe come straight from his own experience. After following the poet’s path through Ireland, France, and the beat neighborhoods of San Francisco, he found a... Read more

At Blackwater Pond

By: Mary Oliver

Narrated by: Mary Oliver

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this audio, she has recorded forty of her favorite poems,... Read more

Obvious Healing

By: Larry Dossey, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Larry Dossey, long hailed as one of the founding fathers of mind-body medicine, directs our attention to simple sources of healing that have been available for centuries, from the power of optimism, the surprising usefulness of dirt and bugs, and even to the benefits of doing nothing. Read more

Field Notes From a Catastrophe - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous path, the world has reached a critical threshold. By the end of the century, it will likely be hotter than at any... Read more

Evolutionary Spirituality: Bridging the Spectrum of Belief

By: Connie Barlow & Michael Dowd

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

It's possible that evolution might not only be reconciled with religion, but in fact become the very foundation of a rich, new spiritual vision. Read more

Fatal Forecast

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were caught in a horrific surprise storm off of Cape Cod. Soon after the Fair Wind and the Sea Fever reached the fishing ground at Georges Bank, they were hit with hurricane-force winds and massive ninety-foot waves that battered the boats for hours and... Read more

The Sense of Wonder

By: Rachel L. Carson

Narrated by: Kaiulani Lee

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in…If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each... Read more

Nature Notes for 1906

By: Edith Holden

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

More than one hundred years ago, a sensitive woman naturalist, nature lover, and accomplished artist began to chronicle all that she encountered while walking and cycling around the countryside of her native England and neighboring Scotland.Besides noting the flora and fauna, she included poems and quaint folk sayings, saints' days, mottoes, and... Read more

Deep Survival

By: Laurence Gonzales

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)

By: Christopher C. Horner

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Global warming: the Left's last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economyFor decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales! But until now, the... Read more

Fishing the Sea to Death

By: Joshua S. Reichert

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It is Reichert's mission to raise our emotional awareness of the plight of the marine ecosystem, so that we will take steps to protect it before it's too late. Read more

Fire

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Kevin Conway

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force;... Read more