Earth

Earth (otherwise known as the world, in Greek: Γαῖα Gaia, or in Latin: Terra) is the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets, and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Earth"

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us

Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough

The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them

Listen to the Language of the Trees: A Story of How Forests Communicate Underground

We Are Branches: A Picture Book About Branching Shapes in Rivers, Butterfly Wings, and Bodies for Kids (Ages 4-8)

Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth (Our Universe, 6)

Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change

Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day

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Earth Books

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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Lists

What's in the Egg, Little Pip? by Karma Wilson

Preschool-'E'

8 books — 2 voters

FICTION Books That Opened Your Eyes to a Social or Political Issue

416 books — 255 voters

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede

"Forest" in the Title

439 books — 33 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

The Flight of the Iguana by David Quammen

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Best of Natural History

362 books — 69 voters

The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis

Women's health and environment

42 books — 28 voters

Best M/M Elementals (fiction)

42 books — 15 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Earth”

“ I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime ”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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