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Natural History Books
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,072 ratings — published 2014
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 28,935 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,115 ratings — published 2018
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,668 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 48,580 ratings — published 2020
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,814 ratings — published 1859
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 163,490 ratings — published 2013
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 35,530 ratings — published 1949
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 79,553 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 19,512 ratings — published 2003
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,509 ratings — published 2019
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,599 ratings — published 1996
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,953 ratings — published 2003
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,190 ratings — published 1989
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,393 ratings — published 2022
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 58,928 ratings — published 2001
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 33,594 ratings — published 2022
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,190 ratings — published 2016
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,366 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,357 ratings — published 2022
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,167 ratings — published 2016
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 58,133 ratings — published 2015
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,328 ratings — published 1839
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,458 ratings — published 1956
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,337 ratings — published 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,222,244 ratings — published 2011
Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,987 ratings — published 1979
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 11,185 ratings — published 2012
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,144 ratings — published 1994
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,171 ratings — published 2018
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,253 ratings — published 2012
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,535 ratings — published 2004
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,158 ratings — published 2018
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,584 ratings — published 1977
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,889 ratings — published 1980
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,623 ratings — published 1968
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,369 ratings — published 2003
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,876 ratings — published 1986
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 53,927 ratings — published 1962
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,144 ratings — published 1991
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,477 ratings — published 2007
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,848 ratings — published 1994
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,480 ratings — published 2008
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,670 ratings — published 1997
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,049 ratings — published 2005
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,122 ratings — published 2020
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,310 ratings — published 1998
The Wild Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,508 ratings — published 2007
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,040 ratings — published 1978
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,629 ratings — published 2003
“The materially reconstructed animal is immune to pain, free from our ability to inflict upon it (further) mental or physical cruelty or violence. Any guilt or concern about the animal's welfare - its confinement, its isolation from its own kind's social structures, and the enforced company of humans - troubles us no longer; the animal is "at rest," while simultaneously prepared to be continually at our behest. Modeled in glass, its eyes are incapable of any disturbingly accusatory stare.”
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“We can continue pushing our earth out of balance, with greenhouse gases accelerating each year, or we can regain balance by acknowledging that if we harm one species, one forest, one lake, this ripples through the entire complex web. Mistreatment of one species is mistreatment of all.
The rest of the planet has been waiting patiently for us to figure that out. Making this transformation requires that humans recommect with nature -- the forests, the prairie, the oceans -- instead of treating everything and everyone as objects for exploitation.”
― Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
The rest of the planet has been waiting patiently for us to figure that out. Making this transformation requires that humans recommect with nature -- the forests, the prairie, the oceans -- instead of treating everything and everyone as objects for exploitation.”
― Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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