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
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
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
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonRed by Terry Tempest WilliamsTracks by Robyn DavidsonTrack of the Cat by Nevada Barr
Deserts of the World
116 books — 21 voters

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
419 books — 145 voters
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserIn Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Food-Related Non-Fiction
1,232 books — 1,638 voters

...the Vegetable World has a higher significance than either the education of man's intellect, or even the maintenance of animal life. With its sweet influences, man's heart, —his moral nature, is in intimate communion; and through them, God reveals himself to the soul in his most endearing attributes. By the teachings of the Vegetable World the tone of our moral being is affected in no small degree, and flowers are often interwoven with the web of human destiny. In a word, the heart of man is s ...more
Alphonso Wood, Poetry Of The Vegetable World: A Popular Exposition Of The Science Of Botany, And Its Relations To Man

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values

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