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.Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
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by: Laurence Gonzales

October 30, 2004
There are clearly two ways to approach this book - one for the great stories, the other for the mindset of the people in the stories.

Personally, I found the conversation about how our minds work to be the most compelling . The idea of a plan as a "memory of the future" is a line that sticks with me.

In my work as an NLP practitioner I know that we create pictures and stories in our minds that determine what our experience of the world will be. After a dramatic experience, we decide (unconsciously) what that experience means to us. We translate each decision into behavior, without even realizing it. And our behavior determines our final outcome. In our regular lives, it may be whether we get the new job, or whether ... Read More:
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.A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All
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by: Luke Dempsey

July 22, 2008
When a friend recently gave me a copy of "A Supremely Bad Idea", I would have ranked my interest in bird watching as #3, directly behind elective groin surgery and spending quality time with my Mother in Law. (#4, BTW, is front row seating at a Celine Dione covers Barry Manilow concert.)

But author Luke Dempsey has made me an enthusiast - very much of his work, and even of ornithology (well, at least to some extent). In the tradition of writers like Bill Bryson and Tony Horowitz, Dempsey gives us a glimpse inside a micro-culture we'd likely not otherwise explore. Wrapping important lessons in biology and ecology in an irresistible travelogue, Dempsey shares with readers his passion for birding and his observations about life here in his ... Read More:
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.The Noble Wilds
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by: The Supreme Master Ching Hai

February 01, 2008
This book is for all ages. It is designed to see a deeper view of animals, our co-inhabitants. I hope when people read this book and look at the illustrations they will have a more compassionate attitude for all living beings.
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.The Last American Man
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by: Elizabeth Gilbert

May 27, 2003
This book really made me think. It wasn't the best written book. I liked her other book, Eat Pray Love better, however even though I'm not thrilled with her style of writing I love the content she presents and what she writes about. This book has seriously made me look at the purpose and quality of my own life and the changes I want to make.
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.Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
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by: Ralph Helfer

August 26, 1998
This book is a "must read". An incredible, true story! I've shared this book with at least 15 people.
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.The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 (The Best American Series)
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from: Houghton Mifflin

October 08, 2008
This book is a "must read". An incredible, true story! I've shared this book with at least 15 people.
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.Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)
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by: Annie Dillard

June 12, 2007
I found this book boring...I KNOW it was a Pulitzer prize winner. But, to
me, oh, so boring...

Annie Dillard is an excellent writer of course, and I loved her little
book, The Writing Life.


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.The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
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by: David Abram

February 25, 1997
An interesting discussion regarding the egocentric modern world. Abram makes reference to a myriad of unconsciously driven facets of human existence, now either ignored or forgotten. Although he limits his argument to the issue of language, his overall thesis is certainly something to consider and apply.
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.Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
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by: Henry David Thoreau

April 12, 1995
I've kept Thoreau at arm's length over the years. I sensed his brilliance yet secretly accused him of purposely unconnecting from the world. I was recently lead to him while looking for some essays on gardening. The first subject he covers in Walden is ecomomy. Economy rates low on my reading list. I was further warned by the difficulty of his text in general. Still, I was close to discovering his writings. In the beginning pages he takes me on a tour of opinions needing to be voiced in my life. My fear of crankiness is dispelled with freshness on every page.
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.The Snow Leopard
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by: Peter Matthiessen

September 30, 2008
Thoreaux: Where in all the world is the literature that gives expression to Nature?
Here it is, in Peter Matthiessens's National Book Award Winning "The Snow Leopard". Peter Matthiessen is now a living legend, a prophet of ecological thought and a long time American Buddhist, but in 1973, when the book was conceived he still wasn't so famous. At the age of 46 he decided to trek through the Inner Dolpo region of Nepal with his friend and co-explorer G. Schaller (well known for his studies on the Mountain Gorillas) to study the bharal (Himalayan blue sheep) and to try to get a glimpse of the mysterious and rare snow leopard. From September to December the two men traveled with sherpas and porters from Pokhara, around the Annapurna, the Dhaulagiri, through the Jang-La ... Read More:
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