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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2212 times as nature)
avg rating 4.50 — 182,374 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2163 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,119 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1419 times as nature)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,644 ratings — published 2020
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1235 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 452,177 ratings — published 1998
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1165 times as nature)
avg rating 4.11 — 203,618 ratings — published 2018
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 1030 times as nature)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,697 ratings — published 1854
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 991 times as nature)
avg rating 4.27 — 68,474 ratings — published 2024
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 967 times as nature)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,194 ratings — published 1949
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 947 times as nature)
avg rating 3.74 — 83,800 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 909 times as nature)
avg rating 4.38 — 22,026 ratings — published 2003
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 847 times as nature)
avg rating 4.46 — 37,672 ratings — published 2022
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 840 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,237 ratings — published 1962
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 814 times as nature)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,720,384 ratings — published 2018
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 806 times as nature)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,209,918 ratings — published 1996
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 759 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,453 ratings — published 1974
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 757 times as nature)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,494 ratings — published 1968
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 751 times as nature)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,526 ratings — published 2015
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 720 times as nature)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,589 ratings — published 2021
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 698 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 879,064 ratings — published 2012
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 671 times as nature)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,839 ratings — published 2019
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 658 times as nature)
avg rating 3.94 — 61,971 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 618 times as nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,978 ratings — published 2014
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 606 times as nature)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,009 ratings — published 2016
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 577 times as nature)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,783 ratings — published 2020
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 569 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,124 ratings — published 2001
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 513 times as nature)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,110 ratings — published 2021
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 502 times as nature)
avg rating 3.97 — 15,070 ratings — published 2017
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 475 times as nature)
avg rating 4.02 — 17,132 ratings — published 2024
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 468 times as nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 22,945 ratings — published 2010
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 462 times as nature)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,751 ratings — published 1977
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 443 times as nature)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,866 ratings — published 2012
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 438 times as nature)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,820 ratings — published 2018
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 431 times as nature)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,462 ratings — published 2016
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 422 times as nature)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,669 ratings — published 2016
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 418 times as nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,219 ratings — published 2023
Raising Hare: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 412 times as nature)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,536 ratings — published 2025
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as nature)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,467 ratings — published 2017
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth – A Popular Science and Natural History Study of Botany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 401 times as nature)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,658 ratings — published 2024
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 394 times as nature)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,938 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 387 times as nature)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,326 ratings — published 2014
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as nature)
avg rating 4.26 — 580,548 ratings — published 1997
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as nature)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,418 ratings — published 2020
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 367 times as nature)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,389 ratings — published 2012
Is a River Alive? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 358 times as nature)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,268 ratings — published 2025
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 352 times as nature)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,364 ratings — published 2018
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 351 times as nature)
avg rating 4.50 — 35,457 ratings — published 2020
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 341 times as nature)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,202 ratings — published 1986
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,156 ratings — published 1978
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as nature)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,551 ratings — published 1859
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as nature)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,273 ratings — published 2005
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
― The Mountains of California
― The Mountains of California
“How I go to the wood
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
unsuitable.
I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of
praying, as you no doubt have yours.
Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit
on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost
unhearable sound of the roses singing.
If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
you very much.”
― Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
unsuitable.
I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of
praying, as you no doubt have yours.
Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit
on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost
unhearable sound of the roses singing.
If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
you very much.”
― Swan: Poems and Prose Poems












