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

When You Find the Right Rock
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth (Our Universe, 6)
Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us
The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
Listen to the Language of the Trees: A Story of How Forests Communicate Underground
The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Earth Medicines: Ancestral Wisdom, Healing Recipes, and Wellness Rituals from a Curandera
Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
The Forest in the Sea: Seaweed Solutions to Planetary Problems (Books for a Better Earth)
Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day
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 Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
The Overstory
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Cosmos
The Children of Húrin
The EARTH Book by Todd ParrThe Perfect Potty Zoo by Agnes GreenWhat's in the Egg, Little Pip? by Karma WilsonElmer and the Rainbow by David McKeeEggs, 1, 2, 3 by Janet Halfmann
Preschool-'E'
8 books — 2 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenThe Flight of the Iguana by David QuammenThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Best of Natural History
363 books — 71 voters
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

Monarchs and Milkweed by Anurag AgrawalWild Migrations by Matthew J. KauffmanThe Homing Instinct by Bernd HeinrichFour Wings and a Prayer by Sue HalpernA World on the Wing by Scott Weidensaul
Animal Migration
35 books — 7 voters


Carl Sagan
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and exp ...more
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them ...more
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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