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.

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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

The Human Animal

133 books — 94 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

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361 books — 67 voters

The Irish Wildlife Book by Fergus O'Gorman

Natural History of Rodents

39 books — 8 voters

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Natural History of the Seashore for Adults

163 books — 35 voters

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104 books — 13 voters

The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. Mannix

Books about Foxes

131 books — 43 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Natural History”

“ We are told that manicured lawns are beautiful, that we must control nature in order to live with it, but that is a lie. Beauty is the give and take between plants and animals. ”
― Sara Dykman

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“ But the most old-fashioned research topic of all - an idea Western culture had known since the time of Aristotle as "the balance of nature," the presence of a dynamic equilibrium in the natural world - began to push ecological sicence in the direction of understanding the role of predators. The Biological Survey's policies (the federal predator control agency) assumed the European fold position: predators were entirely disposable, and the banishment of wolves and cougards and coyotes from Americ ...more ”
― Dan Flores, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

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