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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,059 ratings — published 1949
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,615 ratings — published 1962
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,038 ratings — published 1990
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,271 ratings — published 2009
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,951 ratings — published 2014
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.51 — 170,046 ratings — published 2013
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,721 ratings — published 2019
The Elephant Whisperer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,653 ratings — published 2009
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,216 ratings — published 1968
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.11 — 194,360 ratings — published 2018
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,293 ratings — published 2015
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,969 ratings — published 2012
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,450 ratings — published 2013
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,521 ratings — published 2021
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,374 ratings — published 2018
Wilderness and the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,042 ratings — published 1967
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,232 ratings — published 2020
A Boy and a Jaguar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,423 ratings — published 2014
Hoot (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 110,447 ratings — published 2002
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,259 ratings — published 2002
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.49 — 8,844 ratings — published 2020
Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.98 — 286 ratings — published 2009
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,390 ratings — published 2024
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,920 ratings — published 2016
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,533 ratings — published 2016
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,410 ratings — published 2009
That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,360 ratings — published 2019
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,339 ratings — published 2018
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,158 ratings — published 1983
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,647 ratings — published 1996
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,604 ratings — published 1854
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,084 ratings — published 2008
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.50 — 34,136 ratings — published 2020
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,334 ratings — published 2003
The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.99 — 412 ratings — published 2019
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,779 ratings — published 2010
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,396 ratings — published 2021
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,573 ratings — published 2021
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,157 ratings — published 2016
Elephant Dawn: The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.46 — 693 ratings — published
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,404 ratings — published 2009
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 25,821 ratings — published 1963
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,867 ratings — published 1986
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,290 ratings — published 2007
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,648 ratings — published 2023
One Little Bag: An Amazing Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.36 — 888 ratings — published 2020
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,736 ratings — published 2019
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,387 ratings — published 2017
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.04 — 155,908 ratings — published 2008
Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Readings in Conservation)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.87 — 30 ratings — published 1996
“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”
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“Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.”
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