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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Poseidon's Steed The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality by Helen Scales

Natural History of the Seashore for Adults

163 books — 36 voters

Best Essays about Plants, Animals and Nature

256 books — 60 voters

The Irish Wildlife Book by Fergus O'Gorman

Natural History of Rodents

39 books — 8 voters

Technological Slavery by Theodore John Kaczynski

Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John Kaczynski

Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

The Human Animal

143 books — 101 voters

The Tribe of Tiger by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Books about Cheetahs

14 books — 13 voters

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Nonfiction Books about Plants

436 books — 146 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Natural History”

“ In our twenty-first-century world, the terms "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" sit uneasily in the mind, associated with some of our darkest and most disturbing thoughts about human nature. They conjure Darfur, Servia, Cambodia and Pol Pot, and most vividly of all for many of us, the horrors in Europe before and during World War II. "Spicies cleansing," on the other hand, is not a term that falls readily to hand, although we have engaged in it without much remorse for at least 10,000 years and p ...more ”
― Dan Flores, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

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“ Today our ignorance of natural history is a cultural norm. Our attention has been usurped by the digital age, and any spare moments we have each day are consumed by our personal devices or flat-screen TVs. Our school curriculum does not fill this knowledge void, and most assignments have a digital component that teaches us little about the life around us. I meet intelligent adults today, people who have excelled at all levels of their education and are successful members of our society, who cann ...more ”
― Douglas W. Tallamy, The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

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