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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,064 ratings — published 1949
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,027 ratings — published 1962
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,773 ratings — published 2014
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,397 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 — 18,623 ratings — published 2009
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.50 — 181,103 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 4.37 — 7,086 ratings — published 2019
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.50 — 33,674 ratings — published 2009
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,360 ratings — published 1968
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.11 — 202,593 ratings — published 2018
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.06 — 90,741 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 — 4,084 ratings — published 2012
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,556 ratings — published 2013
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,182 ratings — published 2024
Wilderness and the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,075 ratings — published 1967
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,569 ratings — published 2021
A Boy and a Jaguar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,433 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 — 6,495 ratings — published 2020
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,098 ratings — published 2020
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,753 ratings — published 2018
Hoot (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 111,298 ratings — published 2002
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,290 ratings — published 2002
Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.98 — 289 ratings — published 2009
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,980 ratings — published 2016
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,740 ratings — published 2018
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,277 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 4.17 — 1,429 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 — 4,448 ratings — published 2019
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,971 ratings — published 2016
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,722 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 — 2,093 ratings — published 2008
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.38 — 21,846 ratings — published 2003
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,690 ratings — published 2010
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,371 ratings — published 1854
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,044 ratings — published 2023
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.22 — 23,270 ratings — published 2021
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,941 ratings — published 2021
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.50 — 35,268 ratings — published 2020
The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.96 — 429 ratings — published 2019
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,255 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 — 703 ratings — published
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,137 ratings — published 1963
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,073 ratings — published 1986
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,375 ratings — published 2021
One Little Bag: An Amazing Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.36 — 895 ratings — published 2020
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,432 ratings — published 2009
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,244 ratings — published 2005
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.04 — 158,394 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
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,647 ratings — published 2007
“The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.”
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“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”
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