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

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
When You Find the Right Rock
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
Solar Bear
Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us
The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
Scratching the Surface
Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity
Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough
Be Thankful for Water: How Water Sustains Our Planet
Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
Little Land
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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 Silmarillion
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
Silent Spring
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
Cosmos
The Overstory
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldMartian Aeolian Geomorphology by Zhibao DongThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenThe Flight of the Iguana by David Quammen
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Living Downstream by Sandra SteingraberHaving Faith by Sandra SteingraberEndometriosis by Bethany StahlThe Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra DavisLast Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
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Carl Sagan
“ Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and exp ...more ”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Cormac McCarthy
“ Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of my ...more ”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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