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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Eat the Ones You Love
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Monstera
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
How to Talk to Your Succulent
Greenwild (Greenwild #1)
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
The Woman in the Garden (Professor Eustacia Rose Mystery #1)
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family
Lab Girl
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
The Tiny Seed
This Is Your Mind on Plants
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlA Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha ChristieThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckDandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Edible Plant Fiction Titles
185 books — 12 voters
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
363 books — 71 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererWicked Plants by Amy  StewartIn the Shadow of Slavery by Judith A. CarneyGinseng Dreams by Kristin JohannsenPapyrus by John Gaudet
Ethnobotany
51 books — 13 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterRebecca by Daphne du MaurierTom's Midnight Garden by Philippa PearcePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Novels About Gardens
350 books — 53 voters



May Sarton
Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change.
May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep

Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean.
Jay Kappraff, Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science

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Ecosphere Studies Ecosphere studies reading group.
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The Natural World Book Club A community for nature lovers and readers, run by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County.
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