Natural History

Natural history is the research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

New Releases Tagged "Natural History"

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Traversal
Raising Hare: A Memoir
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Is a River Alive?
Beasts of the Sea
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Origin of Species
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
H is for Hawk
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererLab Girl by Hope JahrenGathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction Books about Plants
436 books — 146 voters

Born Free by Joy AdamsonForever Free by Joy AdamsonLiving Free by Joy AdamsonTrancing the Tiger by Rachael SlateThe Wilderness Family by Kobie Krüger
Books about Big Cats
256 books — 60 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Female Naturalist Writers
287 books — 64 voters
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
394 books — 118 voters


Lawrence Millman
Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust. ...more
Lawrence Millman, Last Places: A Journey in the North

Roman Payne
We made love outdoors Without a roof, I like most, Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and gushing of dew.
Roman Payne

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