Botany

The scientific study of plants.

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
The Signature of All Things
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Botany for Gardeners
Lab Girl
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John WiswellJust Like Home by Sarah GaileyNatural Beauty by Ling Ling HuangA Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
the slime and gorp
4 books — 2 voters

The Snow Leopard by Peter MatthiessenInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonMountains of the Mind by Robert MacfarlaneThere's Always the Hills by Cameron McNeish
Mountains and Highlands
117 books — 22 voters
From Doctor to Healer by Erica M. ElliottMedicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. ElliottFrom Mountains to Medicine by Erica M. ElliottFrom Doctor to Healer by Erica M. ElliottThe Tree by Colin Tudge
Deciduous and Coniferous Forests
242 books — 37 voters

...the Vegetable World has a higher significance than either the education of man's intellect, or even the maintenance of animal life. With its sweet influences, man's heart, —his moral nature, is in intimate communion; and through them, God reveals himself to the soul in his most endearing attributes. By the teachings of the Vegetable World the tone of our moral being is affected in no small degree, and flowers are often interwoven with the web of human destiny. In a word, the heart of man is s ...more
Alphonso Wood, Poetry Of The Vegetable World: A Popular Exposition Of The Science Of Botany, And Its Relations To Man

Aboveground portions of a plant represent only “the tip of an iceberg.
Lincoln Taiz; Eduardo Zeiger, Plant Physiology by Lincoln Taiz

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