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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 — 60,592 ratings — published 2001
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as botany)
avg rating 4.50 — 190,419 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 — 93,407 ratings — published 2015
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as botany)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,325 ratings — published 1998
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as botany)
avg rating 3.88 — 127,924 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 — 11,414 ratings — published 2009
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as botany)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,050 ratings — published 2003
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as botany)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,932 ratings — published 2013
Botany for Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as botany)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,457 ratings — published 1990
The Light Eaters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as botany)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,147 ratings — published 2024
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as botany)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,310 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 — 55,709 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 — 3,166 ratings — published 2015
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as botany)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,145 ratings — published 2012
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as botany)
avg rating 4.52 — 313 ratings — published 1994
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as botany)
avg rating 3.66 — 23,178 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 — 35,465 ratings — published 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as botany)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,281 ratings — published 2021
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 — 979 ratings — published 2010
The Private Life of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 4.44 — 733 ratings — published 1994
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as botany)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,310 ratings — published 2008
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 76,238 ratings — published 2024
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 3.96 — 3,421 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 — 6,599 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 — 2,099 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 — 355 ratings — published 1976
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 669 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
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,800 ratings — published 2017
Botanicum (Welcome to the Museum)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,152 ratings — published 2016
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 209,867 ratings — published 2018
A Text Book of Botany (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 3.72 — 264 ratings — published 2009
Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.37 — 197 ratings — published 2013
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 — 508 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 — 1,442 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 — 500 ratings — published 2011
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,283 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 4.29 — 78 ratings — published 2005
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as botany)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,885 ratings — published 2007
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as botany)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,348 ratings — published 2007
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,309 ratings — published 2015
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,422 ratings — published 2005
Flora: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Plant Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.69 — 223 ratings — published
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
“To Tree’s surprise, e could still feel the blade of Univervia that was on the deer’s tongue. And the feelings that came at Tree were fast, intense and surprising. The whole blade lay languid, surrendering as the tongue mashed the strands of grass up to the roof of the doe’s mouth. Then the deer twisted the grass sideways and ground teeth into the grass. As the grass was destroyed, each cell popped and gave shots of grass life-force into the hungry deer, in little pops of ecstatic release. The whole thing happened as swiftly as a string of firecrackers going off into light and smoke, leaving behind a dull residue that gave no sense of the evanescent beauty that had been enchanting the air only moments before. Tree felt this chunk of Univervia embrace willful dissolution and then suddenly all these little pieces that had been integrated into Univervia were separated into something like ananda, the joy which powers the universe and then... then the grass was deer.”
― Tree
― Tree
“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
