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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When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
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
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Insectopolis: A Natural History
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
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
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Natural History of Rodents
39 books — 8 voters
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Books about Foxes
133 books — 45 voters

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Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,413 books — 2,556 voters
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Modern Science Nonfiction
461 books — 314 voters

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Books for Bird Lovers
534 books — 215 voters
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Books about Big Cats
256 books — 60 voters


Edward O. Wilson
A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.
E. O. Wilson

In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time. ...more
Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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