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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 59,321 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.07 avg rating — 88,579 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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4.51 avg rating — 171,215 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 71,783 ratings
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
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4.02 avg rating — 10,642 ratings
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
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3.82 avg rating — 11,107 ratings
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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4.38 avg rating — 20,461 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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4.11 avg rating — 3,078 ratings
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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter
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3.95 avg rating — 2,060 ratings
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The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
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3.97 avg rating — 3,316 ratings
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The Trees in My Forest
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4.10 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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The Orchid Thief
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3.66 avg rating — 21,866 ratings
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Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
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3.82 avg rating — 961 ratings
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What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
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4.04 avg rating — 4,010 ratings
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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
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3.97 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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The Private Life of Plants
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4.43 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History
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3.79 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees
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3.92 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,380 ratings
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Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
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3.75 avg rating — 763 ratings
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Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
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3.72 avg rating — 580 ratings
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
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4.12 avg rating — 9,026 ratings
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A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
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3.85 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees
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4.26 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
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3.93 avg rating — 9,085 ratings
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The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
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3.69 avg rating — 517 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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4.32 avg rating — 50,604 ratings
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The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
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4.21 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
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4.24 avg rating — 4,311 ratings
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
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4.06 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
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Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
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3.66 avg rating — 2,926 ratings
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Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant Color
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4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Medieval Flowers
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3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
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3.63 avg rating — 123 ratings
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A Natural History Of North American Trees
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4.39 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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3.96 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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3.82 avg rating — 5,368 ratings
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The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, The Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Created
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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4.21 avg rating — 16,720 ratings
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100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names
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3.78 avg rating — 238 ratings
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A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs
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4.41 avg rating — 1,626 ratings
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The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
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4.05 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
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An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds
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3.85 avg rating — 152 ratings
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
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4.11 avg rating — 12,936 ratings
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Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored
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4.24 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Secrets of Saffron: The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice
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3.09 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Tea Companion
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3.86 avg rating — 321 ratings
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The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Botanical Explorers
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3.95 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Plants: From Roots to Riches
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3.95 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Mushrooms: How To Identify and Gather Wild Mushrooms and Other Fungi
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4.33 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Who Named the Daisy? Who Named the Rose?: A Roving Dictionary of North American Wildflowers
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession
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3.82 avg rating — 1,143 ratings
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Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians
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4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Flora Illustrata: Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden
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4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Ginseng, the Divine Root: The Curious History of the Plant That Captivated the World
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3.57 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Trees: Their Natural History
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4.31 avg rating — 93 ratings
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British Gardens in Time: The Greatest Gardens and the People Who Shaped Them
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America
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4.34 avg rating — 1,382 ratings
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Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant
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3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A Weed by Any Other Name: The Virtues of a Messy Lawn, or Learning to Love the Plants We Don't Plant
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3.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Wildflowers of Britain and Northwest Europe
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4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Amazing Rare Things
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4.09 avg rating — 529 ratings
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Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
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3.82 avg rating — 627 ratings
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Bizarre Plants: Magical, Monstrous, Mythical
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3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
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4.05 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit
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3.82 avg rating — 397 ratings
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American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
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4.11 avg rating — 362 ratings
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The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts: How to Find, Identify, and Cook Them
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4.13 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
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4.25 avg rating — 1,581 ratings
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In Praise of Plants
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4.24 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
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3.97 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
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4.21 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness
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3.89 avg rating — 292 ratings
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How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables
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3.54 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent
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3.82 avg rating — 483 ratings
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A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650-1800
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
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4.33 avg rating — 1,326 ratings
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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3.84 avg rating — 29,722 ratings
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The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
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4.05 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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Daffodil: Biography of a Flower
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3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Flora: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Plant Kingdom
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4.70 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Trees of North America: Michaux and Redouté's American Masterpiece
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4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
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4.05 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine
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4.26 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
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4.10 avg rating — 2,505 ratings
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Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
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4.69 avg rating — 311 ratings
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
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3.96 avg rating — 14,550 ratings
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Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science)
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3.41 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Sprout Lands
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4.08 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
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4.20 avg rating — 1,405 ratings
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The Kingdom of Plants
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4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
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Bizarre Botanicals: How to Grow String-of-Hearts, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Panda Ginger, and Other Weird and Wonderful Plants
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4.01 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
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4.45 avg rating — 3,652 ratings
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A Natural History of Conifers
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4.39 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy
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4.59 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Shakespeare's Flora & Fauna
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms
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3.81 avg rating — 1,379 ratings
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Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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