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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

The Woman in the Garden (Professor Eustacia Rose Mystery #1)

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

How to Say Hello to a Worm: A First Guide to Outside

The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food: Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening for Everyone

The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

The Goth Garden: The Mystery, Beauty, and Lore of Dark Gardening

Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America

The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms

Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests

Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

Plant Science for Gardeners: Essentials for Growing Better Plants (Garden Science Series, 2)

The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices

The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes

How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves

Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables

Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners

Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science

Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America

A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health

The New Plant Collector: The Next Adventure in Your House Plant Journey

The Lost Book of Remedies - Discover The Forgotten Power of Plant

Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future

Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson

Compost Science for Gardeners: Simple Methods for Nutrient-Rich Soil (Garden Science Series, 3)

Plant Magick: The Library of Esoterica (Sourcebook)

100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Turn Your Home Garden into a Healthy Bird Habitat

Bloom: The Secrets of Growing Flowering Houseplants Year-Round

You Grow, Gurl!: Plant Kween's Guide to Growing Your Garden

Plants Are My Favorite People: A Relationship Guide for Plants and Their Parents

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

Fearless World Traveler: Adventures of Marianne North, Botanical Artist

The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

Tiny Plants: Discover the Joys of Growing and Collecting Itty-Bitty Houseplants

The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)

The Green Dumb Guide to Houseplants: 45 Unfussy Plants That Are Easy to Grow and Hard to Kill

Enchanted Plants: A Treasury of Botanical Folklore & Magic

This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World

How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 40 Edible Wild Plants

The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

We Are Branches: A Picture Book About Branching Shapes in Rivers, Butterfly Wings, and Bodies for Kids (Ages 4-8)

Rise to the Sky: How the World's Tallest Trees Grow Up

Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of Plants

The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade

Not Another Jungle: Comprehensive Care for Extraordinary Houseplants

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“ Would not the earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with poisonous shrubs... Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance? ”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“ Our immigrant plant teachers offer a lot of different models for how not to make themselves welcome on a new continent. Garlic mustard poisons the soil so that native species will die. Tamarisk uses up all the water. Foreign invaders like loosestrife, kudzu, and cheat grass have the colonizing habit of taking over others’ homes and growing without regard to limits. But Plantain is not like that. Its strategy was to be useful, to fit into small places, to coexist with others around the dooryard, ...more ”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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