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Nature Writing Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.51 — 166,567 ratings — published 2013
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.74 — 79,914 ratings — published 2014
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,502 ratings — published 1974
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.77 — 202,801 ratings — published 1854
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,831 ratings — published 1977
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 35,772 ratings — published 1949
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,713 ratings — published 2019
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 87,469 ratings — published 2015
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,901 ratings — published 1968
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,278 ratings — published 2012
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 19,902 ratings — published 2003
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,273 ratings — published 2018
Landmarks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,388 ratings — published 2015
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,222 ratings — published 1962
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,861 ratings — published 2016
The Wild Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,558 ratings — published 2007
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,927 ratings — published 1986
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 49,420 ratings — published 2020
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,767 ratings — published 1967
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 441,462 ratings — published 1998
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 192,075 ratings — published 2018
The Outrun (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,372 ratings — published 2015
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,487 ratings — published 2007
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.32 — 44,246 ratings — published 2024
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,302 ratings — published 2014
My First Summer in the Sierra (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,358 ratings — published 1911
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,205 ratings — published 1978
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,405 ratings — published 2003
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.94 — 58,773 ratings — published 2015
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,179,821 ratings — published 1996
Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,354 ratings — published 1999
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,182 ratings — published 2015
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 859,767 ratings — published 2012
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,763 ratings — published 2020
Sightlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,764 ratings — published 2012
The Solace of Open Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,347 ratings — published 1984
The Salt Path (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 99,370 ratings — published 2018
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,163 ratings — published 2020
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,702 ratings — published 1991
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,282 ratings — published 2012
The Lost Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.48 — 6,608 ratings — published 2017
A Country Year: Living the Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,184 ratings — published 1983
The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,891 ratings — published 1928
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,472 ratings — published 2015
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,014 ratings — published 2010
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,553,212 ratings — published 2018
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 34,252 ratings — published 2022
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,318 ratings — published 2016
Findings (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,757 ratings — published 2005
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,089 ratings — published 2001
“The whole landscape here is a complex web of relationships between farms, flocks and families. My old man can hardly spell common words, but has an encyclopaedic knowledge of landscape. I think it makes a mockery of conventional ideas about who is and isn't 'intelligent'. Some of the smartest people I have ever known are semi-literate.”
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
“The yellowing light streams into the soft edges of the morning, and daylight blushes with joy at its arrival.”
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