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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 461 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 183,298 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,376 ratings — published 1962
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,378 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 53,908 ratings — published 2020
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,273 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,108 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.38 — 22,161 ratings — published 2003
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.27 — 69,505 ratings — published 2024
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.11 — 204,350 ratings — published 2018
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,686 ratings — published 2021
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,009 ratings — published 2014
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,542 ratings — published 2015
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,733 ratings — published 2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,656 ratings — published 2006
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,603 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,274 ratings — published 2019
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,352 ratings — published 2004
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,939 ratings — published 1854
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,187 ratings — published 2001
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,579 ratings — published 2013
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.46 — 37,864 ratings — published 2022
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,082 ratings — published 1983
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,862 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 4.17 — 5,535 ratings — published 1996
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,676,514 ratings — published 1965
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,271 ratings — published 1992
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,399 ratings — published 2012
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,367 ratings — published 1975
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,883 ratings — published 2024
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,115 ratings — published 2023
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,832 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 58 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,499 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 — 8,735 ratings — published 1996
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 — 7,185 ratings — published 2019
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,386 ratings — published 1979
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,604 ratings — published 1968
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,974 ratings — published 2016
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,785 ratings — published 2017
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,485 ratings — published 1990
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,493 ratings — published 2021
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,691 ratings — published 2020
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 — 35,582 ratings — published 2020
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,514 ratings — published 1974
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,635 ratings — published 2021
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,207 ratings — published 2021
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,935 ratings — published 2019
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,961 ratings — published 1997
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.17 — 875 ratings — published 1982
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,698 ratings — published 1859
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,152 ratings — published 1989
“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
“You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.”
― The Best of Edward Abbey
― The Best of Edward Abbey
