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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 56 times as nature)
avg rating 4.01 — 23,613 ratings — published 1997
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Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by Edward Abbey (shelved 43 times as nature)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,994 ratings — published 1968
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Into the Wild (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 36 times as nature)
avg rating 3.80 — 84,071 ratings — published 1996
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Walden, or Life in the Woods (paper)
by Henry David Thoreau (shelved 35 times as nature)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,735 ratings — published 1854
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by Annie Dillard (shelved 35 times as nature)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,011 ratings — published 1974
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Paperback)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 34 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,382 ratings — published 2001
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A Sand County Almanac (Paperback)
by Aldo Leopold (shelved 29 times as nature)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,796 ratings — published 1966
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Silent Spring (Paperback)
by Rachel Carson (shelved 26 times as nature)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,796 ratings — published 1962
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The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by Alan Weisman (shelved 22 times as nature)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,630 ratings — published 2007
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by Terry Tempest Williams (shelved 21 times as nature)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,612 ratings — published 1992
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The Omnivore's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 20 times as nature)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,632 ratings — published 2006
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by Richard Louv (shelved 18 times as nature)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,960 ratings — published 2005
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The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics)
by Peter Matthiessen (shelved 17 times as nature)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,071 ratings — published 1978
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Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by Douglas Adams (shelved 17 times as nature)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,283 ratings — published 1990
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 17 times as nature)
avg rating 3.98 — 52,926 ratings — published 1997
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Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by Barry Lopez (shelved 17 times as nature)
avg rating 4.35 — 565 ratings — published 1986
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (Hardcover)
by Richard Preston (shelved 17 times as nature)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,510 ratings — published 2007
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 16 times as nature)
avg rating 4.12 — 28,887 ratings — published 2007
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival (Paperback)
by Bernd Heinrich (shelved 14 times as nature)
avg rating 4.10 — 335 ratings — published 2003
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My Family and Other Animals (Paperback)
by Gerald Durrell (shelved 13 times as nature)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,757 ratings — published 1956
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)
by Edward Abbey (shelved 13 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,710 ratings — published 1975
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region (Eastern)
by National Audubon Society (shelved 12 times as nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 111 ratings — published 1980
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Prodigal Summer: A Novel (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 12 times as nature)
avg rating 3.91 — 21,016 ratings — published 2000
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Hardcover)
by Stacey O'Brien (shelved 11 times as nature)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,435 ratings — published 2008
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A Natural History of the Senses (Quality Trade Paperback)
by Diane Ackerman (shelved 10 times as nature)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,287 ratings — published 1990
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The Sibley Guide to Birds (Paperback)
by David Allen Sibley (shelved 10 times as nature)
avg rating 4.69 — 270 ratings — published 2000
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by David Quammen (shelved 10 times as nature)
avg rating 4.42 — 721 ratings — published 1996
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 9 times as nature)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,784 ratings — published 2003
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The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature (Mass Market Paperback)
by Loren Eiseley (shelved 9 times as nature)
avg rating 4.40 — 255 ratings — published 1946
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The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild (Hardcover)
by Craig Childs (shelved 9 times as nature)
avg rating 4.11 — 338 ratings — published 2007
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by Jonathan Weiner (shelved 9 times as nature)
avg rating 4.10 — 813 ratings — published 1994
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The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by Rachel Carson (shelved 9 times as nature)
avg rating 4.20 — 266 ratings — published 1954
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The End of Nature (Paperback)
by Bill McKibben (shelved 9 times as nature)
avg rating 3.87 — 422 ratings — published 1997
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Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (Paperback)
by Farley Mowat (shelved 9 times as nature)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,324 ratings — published 1963
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Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary)
by Henry David Thoreau (shelved 8 times as nature)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,137 ratings — published 1854
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An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field (Paperback)
by Terry Tempest Williams (shelved 8 times as nature)
avg rating 4.03 — 272 ratings — published 1994
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Of Wolves and Men (Paperback)
by Barry Lopez (shelved 8 times as nature)
avg rating 4.34 — 245 ratings — published 1979
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The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (Hardcover)
by Edith Holden (shelved 8 times as nature)
avg rating 4.32 — 118 ratings — published 1906
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
by Amy Stewart (Goodreads author) (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 3.82 — 681 ratings — published 2009
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,106 ratings — published 1995
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El origen de las especies (Clasicos de Siempre; Grandes Filosofos)
by Charles Darwin (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1859
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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks (Paperback)
by Susan Casey (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 3.96 — 900 ratings — published 2005
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,849 ratings — published 2004
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A Year in the Maine Woods (Paperback)
by Bernd Heinrich (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 3.70 — 173 ratings — published 1994
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Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park (Vintage Departures)
by Marie Winn (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 3.92 — 151 ratings — published 1998
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by Stephen Jay Gould (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 4.21 — 559 ratings — published 1989
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The Last Season (P.S.)
by Eric Blehm (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 3.89 — 622 ratings — published 2006
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The Diversity of Life (Paperback)
by Edward O. Wilson (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 4.10 — 384 ratings — published 1992
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The Edge of the Sea (Hardcover)
by Rachel Carson (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 4.25 — 158 ratings — published 1955
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The Wild Places (Paperback)
by Robert MacFarlane (shelved 7 times as nature)
avg rating 3.81 — 135 ratings — published 2007
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"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion."
— Lorraine Anderson
— Lorraine Anderson
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"One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot / (because my truck wheels were glued / in deep mud once again), / I walked straight into / the waiting non-arms of a snake, / its tan beaded-bag skin / studded with black diamonds.
Up it coiled to speak to me a eye level. / Imagine! that sleek finger / rising out of the land's palm / and coiling faster than a Hindu rope. / The thrill of a bull snake / startled in the morning / when the mesas lie pooled / in a custard of light / kept me bright than ball lightning all day.
Praise leapt first to mind / before flight or danger, / praise that knows no half-truth, and pardons all."
— Diane Ackerman (I Praise My Destroyer: Poems)
Up it coiled to speak to me a eye level. / Imagine! that sleek finger / rising out of the land's palm / and coiling faster than a Hindu rope. / The thrill of a bull snake / startled in the morning / when the mesas lie pooled / in a custard of light / kept me bright than ball lightning all day.
Praise leapt first to mind / before flight or danger, / praise that knows no half-truth, and pardons all."
— Diane Ackerman (I Praise My Destroyer: Poems)
