<|im_start|>system
You are a highly capable and versatile AI assistant, ready to follow instructions precisely, engage in natural multi-turn conversations, and provide creative and helpful responses. Adapt your tone and style as appropriate for the user's query.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Two of the best books I have read in a long time are Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and The Overstory by Richard Powers. Got any suggestions for my next read based on these vibes, fiction or nonfiction?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
Of course, happy to help you with book recommendations you might enjoy:

• The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben presents new science on the communication abilities of trees.
• Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald, one of the world’s most insightful nature writers, brings forth this naturalist’s essay collection inspired by the behaviors of birds and other wildlife.
• Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer, the predecessor to her bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass, is a mix of science and personal essay in which the author invites the reader to join the realm of the extremely small living world of mosses. 
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake explores the vast yet often inconspicuous world of fungi. 
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren wrote her memoir about finding her sanctuary in the lab, studying soil, trees, flowers, and seed.
• Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner attempts to connect us with the natural world by presenting nature as not a thing that is outside us but as the web in which we are all connected.<|im_end|>
