Ecology

Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house"; -λογία, "study of"[A]) is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment, such as the interactions organisms have with each other and with their abiotic environment.

See also Science.
...more

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Is a River Alive?
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
The Ministry for the Future
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
The Place of Tides
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing
A Murder of Crows (Nell Ward, #1)
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Silent Spring
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The Overstory
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
The World Without Us
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
The Human Animal
137 books — 95 voters
State of Wonder by Ann PatchettThe Lost City of Z by David GrannThe River of Doubt by Candice MillardMother of God by Paul RosolieJourney to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Amazon Rainforest
104 books — 96 voters

H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanWesley the Owl by Stacey O'BrienThe Wild Birds by Emily StrelowThe Life of Birds by David Attenborough
Books for Bird Lovers
525 books — 207 voters


Frank Herbert
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.
Frank Herbert, Dune

Derrick Jensen
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy th ...more
Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

More quotes...
Wyre Forest Green Books A group for all members of the WFGA to share eco/climate related book reading experiences. Maybe…more
7 members, last active 22 days ago
Underground Knowledge — A discussion group This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underrep…more
24,316 members, last active 15 hours ago
The Climate Book Club The Climate Book Club is a place for anyone who would like to understand the topics related to e…more
13 members, last active 5 years ago
EcoTheo Collective EcoTheo Collective envisions a world in which care for the places we inhabit, the people we enco…more
4 members, last active 3 years ago