Ecology

Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house"; -λογία, "study of"[A]) is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment, such as the interactions organisms have with each other and with their abiotic environment.

See also Science.
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The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
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Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Pearce Oysters
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
A Murder of Crows (Nell Ward, #1)
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Silent Spring
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The Overstory
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
The World Without Us
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Murray Bookchin
Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows, from this view, that these ecological problems cannot be understood, let alone solved, without a careful understanding of our existing society and the irrationalities that dominate it. To make this point more concrete: economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender conflicts, among many others, lie at the core of the most serious ecological dislocations we fa ...more
Murray Bookchin, Social Ecology and Communalism

James E. Lovelock
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.
James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

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