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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 183 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,762 ratings — published 2001
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as botany)
avg rating 4.49 — 193,566 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 94,288 ratings — published 2015
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as botany)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,330 ratings — published 1998
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as botany)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,427 ratings — published 2013
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as botany)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,462 ratings — published 2009
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as botany)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,431 ratings — published 2003
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as botany)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,957 ratings — published 2013
Botany for Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as botany)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,462 ratings — published 1990
The Light Eaters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as botany)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,555 ratings — published 2024
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as botany)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,547 ratings — published 2016
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as botany)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,430 ratings — published 2020
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,178 ratings — published 2015
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as botany)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,163 ratings — published 2012
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as botany)
avg rating 4.52 — 312 ratings — published 1994
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as botany)
avg rating 3.66 — 23,318 ratings — published 1998
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as botany)
avg rating 3.75 — 988 ratings — published 2016
This Is Your Mind on Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as botany)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,667 ratings — published 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as botany)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,512 ratings — published 2021
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 4.25 — 79,713 ratings — published 2024
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 3.82 — 985 ratings — published 2010
The Private Life of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as botany)
avg rating 4.45 — 733 ratings — published 1994
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as botany)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,321 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as botany)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,431 ratings — published 1973
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,707 ratings — published 2023
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 3.67 — 823 ratings — published 2010
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,107 ratings — published 2005
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 240 ratings — published 2012
Biology of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 358 ratings — published 1976
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 671 ratings — published 2007
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as botany)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,144 ratings — published 1994
A Textbook of Botany (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.01 — 87 ratings — published
Botanicum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,161 ratings — published 2016
Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.36 — 198 ratings — published 2013
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 211,910 ratings — published 2018
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,817 ratings — published 2017
A Text Book of Botany (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 3.72 — 264 ratings — published 2009
The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora – An Entertaining Encyclopedia from Magic Mushrooms to Toxic Teas (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as botany)
avg rating 3.73 — 512 ratings — published
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,449 ratings — published 2018
Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 4.35 — 51 ratings — published 1984
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 501 ratings — published 2011
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,309 ratings — published 1991
Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology (Fourth Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as botany)
avg rating 4.02 — 143 ratings — published 1991
Plant Systematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as botany)
avg rating 4.28 — 79 ratings — published 2005
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as botany)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,924 ratings — published 2007
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as botany)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,409 ratings — published 2007
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,431 ratings — published 2005
Flora: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Plant Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.68 — 228 ratings — published
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,665 ratings — published 2015
Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.48 — 570 ratings — published 2010
“It would be easy to get the idea from all this that Mimosa is some kind of genius, a veritable Einstein among vegetables. But there's no evidence for this at all. The reason all this work has focused on Mimosa is simply that its ability to move (and fast) makes it a convenient experimental subject, which in turn reveals just what a hasty bunch we are; other plants may well be smarter than Mimosa, but until very recently biologists had generally decided that it would take too long to find out.”
― Darwins Most Wonderful Plants
― Darwins Most Wonderful Plants
“The necklace we are after is called the Wild Heart," Jack said. "It last sold at auction in November 2015 for $25 million. It features twenty-six oval-shaped flawless pink diamonds and a forty-carat heart-shaped pink diamond. Each diamond is enhanced by a cluster of oval-shaped green marquise emeralds supposedly crafted to resemble the leaves of the phalaenopsis orchid, but which in fact are more like dendrobiums that produce leaves that are opposite one another. The diamonds and emeralds are strategically placed to create a floral effect that makes the necklace resemble Orchidaceae. The gems are set in eighteen-carat white gold and precious platinum."
"He likes plants," I explained when I saw a few blank stares. "We met in the hellebore."
"It wasn't as romantic as it sounds," Jack said. "She trampled it underfoot like a herd of elephants. I had to go back the next night to repair the damage."
"I wasn't trying to make it sound romantic." I heaved a sigh. "I was explaining how I knew that you liked plants."
"They probably understood when you said, 'He likes plants.'" Jack's gaze drifted to Cristian. "At least some of them.”
― To Have and to Heist
"He likes plants," I explained when I saw a few blank stares. "We met in the hellebore."
"It wasn't as romantic as it sounds," Jack said. "She trampled it underfoot like a herd of elephants. I had to go back the next night to repair the damage."
"I wasn't trying to make it sound romantic." I heaved a sigh. "I was explaining how I knew that you liked plants."
"They probably understood when you said, 'He likes plants.'" Jack's gaze drifted to Cristian. "At least some of them.”
― To Have and to Heist
