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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 433 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.51 — 173,317 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,981 ratings — published 1962
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.07 — 89,140 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,140 ratings — published 2020
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,331 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,416 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,744 ratings — published 2003
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.28 — 57,727 ratings — published 2024
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.11 — 196,793 ratings — published 2018
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,725 ratings — published 2014
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,863 ratings — published 2021
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,394 ratings — published 2007
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,152 ratings — published 2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,743 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,452 ratings — published 2006
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,710 ratings — published 2004
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,867 ratings — published 2019
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,375 ratings — published 1854
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,446 ratings — published 2001
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,476 ratings — published 2013
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,629,058 ratings — published 1965
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,014 ratings — published 1983
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,437 ratings — published 1996
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,477 ratings — published 2018
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,242 ratings — published 1992
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.46 — 35,623 ratings — published 2022
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,323 ratings — published 2012
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,435 ratings — published 2018
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,177 ratings — published 1975
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,674 ratings — published 1996
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,740 ratings — published 2023
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,121 ratings — published 1990
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,514 ratings — published 1968
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,919 ratings — published 2024
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,234 ratings — published 2017
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 53 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,848 ratings — published 2016
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,470 ratings — published 2017
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,245 ratings — published 2021
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,830 ratings — published 2019
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,126 ratings — published 2019
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 458,048 ratings — published 1997
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,342 ratings — published 1979
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,861 ratings — published 1974
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,570 ratings — published 2021
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,146 ratings — published 2020
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 34,454 ratings — published 2020
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,141 ratings — published 2021
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,132 ratings — published 1989
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,726 ratings — published 1977
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 865 ratings — published 1982
“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them.
At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
“We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.”
― The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
― The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
