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Ecology Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 183,054 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,338 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 — 91,322 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 249 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 53,829 ratings — published 2020
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,256 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,073 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.38 — 22,130 ratings — published 2003
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.27 — 69,232 ratings — published 2024
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.11 — 204,156 ratings — published 2018
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,653 ratings — published 2021
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,011 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 — 8,531 ratings — published 2015
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,725 ratings — published 2007
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,585 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,607 ratings — published 2006
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,265 ratings — published 2019
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,342 ratings — published 2004
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,885 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 — 60,169 ratings — published 2001
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,575 ratings — published 2013
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.46 — 37,813 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 — 9,851 ratings — published 2018
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,675,216 ratings — published 1965
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,534 ratings — published 1996
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,269 ratings — published 1992
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,396 ratings — published 2012
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,362 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 — 10,826 ratings — published 2024
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,103 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 — 5,815 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 — 7,495 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 — 8,733 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 4.37 — 7,178 ratings — published 2019
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,385 ratings — published 1979
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,572 ratings — published 1968
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,970 ratings — published 2016
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,777 ratings — published 2017
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,477 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 — 3,491 ratings — published 2021
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,674 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 — 35,544 ratings — published 2020
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,495 ratings — published 1974
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,625 ratings — published 2021
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,194 ratings — published 2021
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,904 ratings — published 2019
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,742 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 — 123,659 ratings — published 1859
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,151 ratings — published 1989
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
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“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.”
― Dune
― Dune












