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 Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Is a River Alive?
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
The Ministry for the Future
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
The Place of Tides
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing
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
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
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
The World Without Us
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingGorillas in the Mist by Dian FosseyOut of Africa by Isak DinesenHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Rainforests and Jungles of the World
384 books — 107 voters
State of Wonder by Ann PatchettThe Lost City of Z by David GrannThe River of Doubt by Candice MillardMother of God by Paul RosolieJourney to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Amazon Rainforest
104 books — 96 voters

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlWonderful Life by Stephen Jay GouldLife in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough
Books about Invertebrates
397 books — 46 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLab Girl by Hope JahrenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonAlien Earths by Lisa KalteneggerInvisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
Women in Science
326 books — 103 voters



Karen Armstrong
We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realize the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as sufficiently productive or efficient in our pragmatic, rational world. We need myths that help us to create a spiritual attitude, to see beyond our immediate requirements, and enable us to experience a transcendent value that challenges our solipsis ...more
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth

D.H. Lawrence
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? ...more
D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

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