Botany

The scientific study of plants.

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
The Signature of All Things
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Botany for Gardeners
Lab Girl
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererLab Girl by Hope JahrenThe Drunken Botanist by Amy  Stewart
Nonfiction Books about Plants
416 books — 141 voters
The Snow Leopard by Peter MatthiessenInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonMountains of the Mind by Robert MacfarlaneThere's Always the Hills by Cameron McNeish
Mountains and Highlands
117 books — 22 voters

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John WiswellJust Like Home by Sarah GaileyNatural Beauty by Ling Ling HuangA Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
the slime and gorp
4 books — 2 voters
Vincent Van Gogh by Ingo F. WaltherLeonardo. The Complete Drawings by Frank ZöllnerMichelangelo by Frank ZöllnerLeonardo Da Vinci The Complete Paintings by Frank ZöllnerMichelangelo. The Graphic Work by Thomas Ppper
Taschen Bibliotheca Universalis
110 books — 8 voters

Amitav Ghosh
To her father who had taught her what she knew of botany, the love of Nature had been a kind of religion, a form of spiritual striving: he had believed that in trying to comprehend the inner vitality of each species, human beings could transcend the mundane world and its artificial divisions. If botany was the Scripture of this religion, then horticulture was its form of worship: tending a garden was, for Pierre Lambert, no mere matter of planting seeds and pruning branches--it was a spiritual d ...more
Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke

Jane Goodall
It was as though the plants wanted me to write a different kind of book and sent gentle roots deep into my brain. They wanted me to fully acknowledge their importance in human history, their amazing powers of healing, the nourishment they provide, their ability to harm if we misused them, and, ultimately, our dependence on the plant kingdom. The plants seemed to want me to share with the world my own understanding of their beingness, so that people might better honor them as important partners i ...more
Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

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