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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Eradication: A Fable
Vigil
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Arborescence
Vigil
Playground
Eradication: A Fable
The Music of Bees
Beasts of the Sea
Bewilderment
Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
Monk and Robot (Monk & Robot, #1-2)
Two Degrees
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
A Murder of Crows (Nell Ward, #1)
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Lyrebird
Juice
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
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
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenThe Flight of the Iguana by David QuammenThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Best of Natural History
362 books — 69 voters
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Books to Change the World
131 books — 120 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
204 books — 128 voters


Ursula K. Le Guin
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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
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