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Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,989 ratings — published 1962
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.50 — 187,677 ratings — published 2013
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.11 — 207,745 ratings — published 2018
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,611 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,759 ratings — published 2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,121 ratings — published 2014
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,638 ratings — published 2015
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,867 ratings — published 2007
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,476 ratings — published 2019
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,049 ratings — published 1968
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,990 ratings — published 2020
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,122 ratings — published 2006
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.26 — 73,873 ratings — published 2024
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,964 ratings — published 1854
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 456,874 ratings — published 1998
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,258 ratings — published 2007
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,702 ratings — published 2003
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,672 ratings — published 2020
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,340 ratings — published 1975
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,738 ratings — published 2021
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,598 ratings — published 2002
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.10 — 117,174 ratings — published 2020
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,543 ratings — published 2021
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,560 ratings — published 2004
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,217 ratings — published 1986
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,024 ratings — published 2015
The Lorax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.35 — 376,131 ratings — published 1971
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,428 ratings — published 2001
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.06 — 589,223 ratings — published 2025
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,497 ratings — published 2009
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,030 ratings — published 2021
Flight Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.83 — 104,363 ratings — published 2012
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,264 ratings — published 2019
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,918 ratings — published 1997
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,418 ratings — published 2017
Once There Were Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.09 — 148,610 ratings — published 2021
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,920 ratings — published 2017
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,160 ratings — published 1989
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,035 ratings — published 2006
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.50 — 36,016 ratings — published 2020
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,353 ratings — published 2010
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,561 ratings — published 2008
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.86 — 45,162 ratings — published 2020
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,257 ratings — published 2022
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,284 ratings — published 2019
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,926 ratings — published 2006
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,400 ratings — published 2005
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,655 ratings — published 2019
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 135,571 ratings — published 2009
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,778 ratings — published 1974
“The big man tells you to chop down a beautiful tree. He does not think of his own children, who tomorrow must live in a world without trees”
― The Great Kapok Tree
― The Great Kapok Tree
“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”
― The letters of Queen Elizabeth I;
― The letters of Queen Elizabeth I;
