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
View audiobookCrossing 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
View audiobookSilent 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
View audiobookCome 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
View audiobookEntering 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
View audiobookDancing 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
View audiobookFrom 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
View audiobookOf 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookA 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
View audiobookSalt
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
View audiobookHiking 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookAt 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
View audiobookObvious 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
View audiobookField 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
View audiobookEvolutionary 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
View audiobookFatal 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
View audiobookDeep 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookNature 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
View audiobookFishing 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
View audiobookFire
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
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