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.

New Releases Tagged "Environment"

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary
Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Hafsa's Way
Playground
Bewilderment
The Music of Bees
Eradication: A Fable
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Helm
Beasts of the Sea
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Ghost-Eye
Above the Fire
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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
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
106 books — 98 voters
The Lorax by Dr. SeussProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverThe Beast of Cretacea by Todd StrasserWatership Down by Richard  AdamsDouble Bind by Seb Kirby
Eco-Fiction
356 books — 331 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
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
206 books — 133 voters


Henry David Thoreau
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

Kathryn Stockett
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Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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