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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.31 — 38,082 ratings — published 1949
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.49 — 193,564 ratings — published 2013
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,982 ratings — published 2014
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.07 — 57,734 ratings — published 1962
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,873 ratings — published 2020
The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,870 ratings — published 2026
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,803 ratings — published 1990
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,149 ratings — published 2009
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.86 — 46,478 ratings — published 2020
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,911 ratings — published 2002
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,534 ratings — published 2019
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,955 ratings — published 2025
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,581 ratings — published 2014
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,728 ratings — published 2017
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.48 — 11,479 ratings — published 2023
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 56,926 ratings — published 2024
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,320 ratings — published 2018
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,463 ratings — published 2020
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.51 — 34,949 ratings — published 2009
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,748 ratings — published 2024
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,212 ratings — published 2020
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,587 ratings — published 1968
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,264 ratings — published 2014
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,567 ratings — published 2008
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,577 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 211,908 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 4.06 — 94,285 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 — 4,218 ratings — published 2012
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.25 — 79,712 ratings — published 2024
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,688 ratings — published 2013
Wilderness and the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,092 ratings — published 1967
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,622 ratings — published 2021
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,314 ratings — published 2020
A Boy and a Jaguar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,443 ratings — published 2014
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 — 6,751 ratings — published 2020
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,215 ratings — published 2018
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,291 ratings — published 2018
Hoot (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 112,353 ratings — published 2002
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,314 ratings — published 2002
That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,540 ratings — published 2019
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,047 ratings — published 2016
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,421 ratings — published 2016
Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.97 — 292 ratings — published 2009
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,418 ratings — published 1983
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,451 ratings — published 2009
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,409 ratings — published 2023
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,800 ratings — published 1996
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 — 2,109 ratings — published 2008
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 32,399 ratings — published 2021
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,430 ratings — published 2003
“Wildness is the preservation of the World.”
― Walking
― Walking
“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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