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Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,381 ratings — published 1962
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.50 — 190,695 ratings — published 2013
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.10 — 210,078 ratings — published 2018
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,880 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,291 ratings — published 2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,206 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 — 93,478 ratings — published 2015
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,965 ratings — published 2007
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,595 ratings — published 2019
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,343 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 — 55,783 ratings — published 2020
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.26 — 76,460 ratings — published 2024
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,495 ratings — published 2006
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.77 — 208,840 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 — 459,465 ratings — published 1998
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,472 ratings — published 2007
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,080 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 — 6,700 ratings — published 2020
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,573 ratings — published 1975
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,616 ratings — published 2002
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,850 ratings — published 2021
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.10 — 120,040 ratings — published 2020
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,810 ratings — published 2004
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,621 ratings — published 2021
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.05 — 633,648 ratings — published 2025
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,292 ratings — published 1986
The Lorax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.35 — 377,335 ratings — published 1971
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,344 ratings — published 2015
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,664 ratings — published 2009
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,612 ratings — published 2001
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,303 ratings — published 2021
Flight Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.83 — 104,867 ratings — published 2012
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,325 ratings — published 2019
Once There Were Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.09 — 153,296 ratings — published 2021
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,863 ratings — published 1997
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,424 ratings — published 2017
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.34 — 12,025 ratings — published 2017
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,166 ratings — published 1989
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,298 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 47 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,411 ratings — published 2010
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,043 ratings — published 2006
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.85 — 45,723 ratings — published 2020
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,738 ratings — published 2008
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,299 ratings — published 2022
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,492 ratings — published 2019
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,945 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 — 15,452 ratings — published 2005
Is a River Alive? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.15 — 9,279 ratings — published 2025
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,730 ratings — published 2019
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 136,108 ratings — published 2009
“A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.”
― Texas Tomboy
― Texas Tomboy
“Vital resources of energy and minerals are finite.”
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