Environment

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.

New Releases Tagged "Environment"

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary
Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Hafsa's Way
Playground
Bewilderment
The Music of Bees
Eradication: A Fable
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Helm
Beasts of the Sea
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Ghost-Eye
Above the Fire
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Silent Spring
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Overstory
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The World Without Us
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Progressive Reads
1,070 books — 726 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Best Nature Books
1,161 books — 810 voters

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
225 books — 214 voters
Tortoise Stew by P.C. ZickMagic America by C.E. MedfordCatori's Worlds by Murielle CyrTrails in the Sand by P.C. ZickA Sudden Light by Garth Stein
Environmental Novels
75 books — 99 voters


We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is ei ...more
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Wendell Berry
We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ... We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. . . We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House

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