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Botany Books
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 182 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,288 ratings — published 2001
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as botany)
avg rating 4.51 — 170,235 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as botany)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,343 ratings — published 2015
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as botany)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,271 ratings — published 1998
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as botany)
avg rating 3.88 — 124,590 ratings — published 2013
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as botany)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,094 ratings — published 2009
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as botany)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,635 ratings — published 2013
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as botany)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,359 ratings — published 2003
Botany for Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as botany)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,409 ratings — published 1990
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as botany)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,728 ratings — published 2016
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 4.11 — 3,077 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as botany)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,397 ratings — published 2020
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as botany)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,003 ratings — published 2012
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as botany)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,468 ratings — published 2024
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as botany)
avg rating 4.52 — 305 ratings — published 1994
This Is Your Mind on Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as botany)
avg rating 3.87 — 33,546 ratings — published 2021
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as botany)
avg rating 3.66 — 21,811 ratings — published 1998
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 — 961 ratings — published 2010
The Private Life of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 4.43 — 723 ratings — published 1994
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as botany)
avg rating 3.75 — 961 ratings — published 2016
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as botany)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,665 ratings — published 2021
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as botany)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,060 ratings — published 2005
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History (Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 3.68 — 799 ratings — published 2010
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,259 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 28 times as botany)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,309 ratings — published 1973
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as botany)
avg rating 4.24 — 232 ratings — published 2012
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as botany)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,130 ratings — published 1994
A Textbook of Botany (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.01 — 87 ratings — published
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.05 — 644 ratings — published 2007
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,556 ratings — published 2023
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,645 ratings — published 2017
A Text Book of Botany (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 3.71 — 265 ratings — published 2009
Botanicum (Welcome to the Museum)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,121 ratings — published 2016
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as botany)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,781 ratings — published 2024
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as botany)
avg rating 4.11 — 194,492 ratings — published 2018
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 3.74 — 484 ratings — published
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 498 ratings — published 2011
Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 4.38 — 183 ratings — published 2013
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,076 ratings — published 1991
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as botany)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,408 ratings — published 2018
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as botany)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,013 ratings — published 2007
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,640 ratings — published 2007
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,345 ratings — published 2005
Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.34 — 50 ratings — published 1984
Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.49 — 560 ratings — published 2010
Biology of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.09 — 350 ratings — published 1976
Flora: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Plant Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as botany)
avg rating 4.70 — 217 ratings — published
Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology (Fourth Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as botany)
avg rating 4.02 — 143 ratings — published 1991
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as botany)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,509 ratings — published 2015
Plant Systematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as botany)
avg rating 4.30 — 77 ratings — published 2005
“It was as though the plants wanted me to write a different kind of book and sent gentle roots deep into my brain. They wanted me to fully acknowledge their importance in human history, their amazing powers of healing, the nourishment they provide, their ability to harm if we misused them, and, ultimately, our dependence on the plant kingdom. The plants seemed to want me to share with the world my own understanding of their beingness, so that people might better honor them as important partners in so many of our endeavors.”
― Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
― Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
“The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky.
Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.”
― In the Garden of Iden
Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.”
― In the Garden of Iden












