Environment

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.

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The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History
Bumblebee Season
Playground
Ordures!: Journal d’un vidangeur
The Music of Bees
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
Eradication: A Fable
Bewilderment
Beasts of the Sea
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Firestorm - The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster
Ghost-Eye
Bumblebee Season
Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
Tooth and Claw (A Longmire Mystery, #0.5)
Silent Spring
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Overstory
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The World Without Us
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie KondōGoodbye, Things by Fumio SasakiThe Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide by Francine JayWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauEssentialism by Greg McKeown
Minimalism
86 books — 70 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,099 books — 1,259 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
Public Health
207 books — 134 voters
Tortoise Stew by P.C. ZickMagic America by C.E. MedfordCatori's Worlds by Murielle CyrTrails in the Sand by P.C. ZickA Sudden Light by Garth Stein
Environmental Novels
75 books — 99 voters


We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is ei ...more
Moss Cass

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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