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This list has very specific criteria. 500 ratings. 50 times shelved as nature. Most books with less than 500 ratings have been removed. At least some books with less than 50 times shelved as nature have been removed.

Added a bunch more books to this list that now meet the criteria. Removed a few that clearly never met the criteria.

The criteria for this list has been changed from 50 tags/500 ratings to 80 tags/800 ratings

❌ Books that should be REMOVED (Not found in top 25 shelf pages or below threshold): The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean and The Life of Mammals and Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature and A Brief History of Time and Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides and Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America and The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife and When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice and The High Sierra: A Love Story and The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds and Thin Places and The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology and The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World and The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us and AWOL on the Appalachian Trail and The Tiny Seed and The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales and Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds and Me... Jane and The Secret Knowledge of Water and Ravens in Winter and The Last American Man and As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock and A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America and Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid and Nature Cure and Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf and New and Selected Poems, Volume One and Wishtree and National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region and The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild and The Natural History of Selborne and Wilderness and the American Mind and How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature and Moby-Dick or, The Whale and Pax (Pax, #1) and The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever and Life and The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea and The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands and Nature Obscura: A City's Hidden Natural World and Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food and The Mountains of California and Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England and Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays and Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind and Corvus: A Life with Birds and Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness and Winter: Notes from Montana – Classic Essays Celebrating a Remote Valley's Seasons and Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide and The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds and Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book) and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore and The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog and The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey and When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals and Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide and Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle and A Butterfly Is Patient and The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides and On Animals and Crossing Open Ground and To The Bright Edge of the World and The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks and A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South and A Nest Is Noisy and The Immense Journey and A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons and Lord of the Flies