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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 470 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 186,486 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,842 ratings — published 1962
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,276 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,703 ratings — published 2020
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,513 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,575 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,551 ratings — published 2003
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.26 — 72,808 ratings — published 2024
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.11 — 206,816 ratings — published 2018
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,948 ratings — published 2021
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,079 ratings — published 2014
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,657 ratings — published 2015
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,836 ratings — published 2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,993 ratings — published 2006
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,908 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,416 ratings — published 2019
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,497 ratings — published 2004
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,704 ratings — published 1854
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,370 ratings — published 2001
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.46 — 38,467 ratings — published 2022
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,617 ratings — published 2013
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,691,459 ratings — published 1965
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,103 ratings — published 1983
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,966 ratings — published 2018
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,578 ratings — published 1996
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,275 ratings — published 1992
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,517 ratings — published 2024
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,405 ratings — published 1975
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,218 ratings — published 2023
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,438 ratings — published 2012
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,954 ratings — published 2018
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,578 ratings — published 2017
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,753 ratings — published 1996
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,925 ratings — published 1968
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,398 ratings — published 1979
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,309 ratings — published 2019
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,032 ratings — published 2016
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,879 ratings — published 2017
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,587 ratings — published 1990
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,573 ratings — published 2021
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,834 ratings — published 2020
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,709 ratings — published 1974
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,758 ratings — published 2021
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 35,897 ratings — published 2020
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,198 ratings — published 2019
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,777 ratings — published 1997
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,369 ratings — published 2021
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.17 — 877 ratings — published 1982
Is a River Alive? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,255 ratings — published 2025
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,136 ratings — published 1859
“Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is — or should be — the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all — perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows."
Essay on the Biological Sciences, in: Good Reading (1958)”
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Essay on the Biological Sciences, in: Good Reading (1958)”
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“It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals












