Earth

Earth (otherwise known as the world, in Greek: Γαῖα Gaia, or in Latin: Terra) is the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets, and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. ...more

The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts  and Pieces of the World under the Sea
If You Come to Earth
Solar Bear: An Empowering Picture Book About Endangered Animals and Caring for Our Planet for Kids (Ages 4-8)
Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day
Pollution Is Colonialism
Little Land
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth (Our Universe, 6)
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Ocean: Waves for All (Our universe, #4)
Old Rock [is not boring]
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Silmarillion
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
Silent Spring
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Lord of the Rings
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Cosmos
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Children of Húrin
Walking Wild by Jose A NevesA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Some Great Books on Nature
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Stasis by Kim FieldingEquipoise by Kim FieldingEquilibrium by Katey HawthorneBurn by T.J. KluneFlux by Kim Fielding
Best M/M Elementals (fiction)
42 books — 15 voters

The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckJourney to the Center of the Earth by Jules VernePacking for Mars by Mary RoachThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Planets in the Title
606 books — 63 voters
Living Downstream by Sandra SteingraberHaving Faith by Sandra SteingraberEndometriosis by Bethany StahlThe Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra DavisLast Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Women's health and environment
42 books — 28 voters


Neil deGrasse Tyson
I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
Neil deGrasse Tyson

The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer … They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all that is around them, and they contemplated in turn the arc of heaven and the round face of the earth … [Then the Creator said]: 'They know all … what shall we do with them now? Let their sight reach only to that which is nea ...more
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