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Nature Books
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2114 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,474 ratings — published 2015
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2090 times as nature)
avg rating 4.51 — 170,736 ratings — published 2013
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1362 times as nature)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,523 ratings — published 2020
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1220 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 443,984 ratings — published 1998
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1123 times as nature)
avg rating 4.11 — 194,836 ratings — published 2018
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 996 times as nature)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,775 ratings — published 1854
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 939 times as nature)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,115 ratings — published 1949
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 915 times as nature)
avg rating 3.74 — 80,477 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 863 times as nature)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,410 ratings — published 2003
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 841 times as nature)
avg rating 4.28 — 53,742 ratings — published 2024
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 806 times as nature)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,590,436 ratings — published 2018
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 805 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,689 ratings — published 1962
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 785 times as nature)
avg rating 4.46 — 35,124 ratings — published 2022
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 780 times as nature)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,187,177 ratings — published 1996
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 733 times as nature)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,281 ratings — published 1968
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 729 times as nature)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,549 ratings — published 2015
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 720 times as nature)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,729 ratings — published 1974
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 689 times as nature)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,699 ratings — published 2021
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 674 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 864,158 ratings — published 2012
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 648 times as nature)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,986 ratings — published 2019
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 635 times as nature)
avg rating 3.94 — 59,515 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 604 times as nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,035 ratings — published 2014
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 587 times as nature)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,477 ratings — published 2016
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 561 times as nature)
avg rating 4.05 — 24,013 ratings — published 2020
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 560 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,310 ratings — published 2001
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 498 times as nature)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,667 ratings — published 2021
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 493 times as nature)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,536 ratings — published 2017
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 450 times as nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,377 ratings — published 2010
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 430 times as nature)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,032 ratings — published 1977
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 429 times as nature)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,394 ratings — published 2018
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 426 times as nature)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,425 ratings — published 2012
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 420 times as nature)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,751 ratings — published 2016
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 418 times as nature)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,760 ratings — published 2024
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as nature)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,280 ratings — published 2016
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 392 times as nature)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,183 ratings — published 2017
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 387 times as nature)
avg rating 4.16 — 14,594 ratings — published 2023
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as nature)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,752 ratings — published 2016
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills ( (Paperback)
by (shelved 378 times as nature)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,105 ratings — published 2014
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 378 times as nature)
avg rating 4.26 — 565,099 ratings — published 1997
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 376 times as nature)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,214 ratings — published 2020
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 357 times as nature)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,310 ratings — published 2012
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 353 times as nature)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,536 ratings — published 2024
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 341 times as nature)
avg rating 4.50 — 34,198 ratings — published 2020
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as nature)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,064 ratings — published 2018
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,467 ratings — published 1978
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as nature)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,996 ratings — published 2005
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as nature)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,001 ratings — published 1986
Landmarks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 321 times as nature)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,425 ratings — published 2015
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 320 times as nature)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,733 ratings — published 1859
My First Summer in the Sierra (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as nature)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,400 ratings — published 1911
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
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