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Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
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4.07 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
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3.84 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Trees in Paradise: A California History
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4.18 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Shinrin Yoku: The Art of Japanese Forest Bathing
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3.67 avg rating — 728 ratings
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
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4.11 avg rating — 2,276 ratings
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Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees
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4.26 avg rating — 500 ratings
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
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3.96 avg rating — 15,346 ratings
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The Overstory
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4.10 avg rating — 209,887 ratings
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Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards
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4.18 avg rating — 456 ratings
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The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food Forest
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3.91 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests
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4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
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3.92 avg rating — 15,449 ratings
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The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-deficit Disorder
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3.87 avg rating — 1,963 ratings
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Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak
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4.06 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Oak: The Frame of Civilization
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3.96 avg rating — 447 ratings
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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
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4.26 avg rating — 76,263 ratings
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Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot
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3.92 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Shading Our Cities: A Resource Guide for Urban and Community Forests
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
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4.21 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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A Song for the Earth
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4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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King Sequoia: The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature
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4.11 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
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4.23 avg rating — 796 ratings
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The Politics of Street Trees
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
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4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Tree That Owns Itself: And Other Adventure Tales from Out of the Past
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3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World
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4.30 avg rating — 743 ratings
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The Global Forest
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3.79 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The Toombs Oak, the Tree That Owned Itself, and Other Chapters of Georgia History
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
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4.33 avg rating — 1,348 ratings
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Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest
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4.29 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Hiking Atlanta's Hidden Forests
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4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
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4.28 avg rating — 717 ratings
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Quiet Reflections: The Clemson University Forest
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
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4.34 avg rating — 2,704 ratings
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A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization
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4.19 avg rating — 161 ratings
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City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance Through the Nineteenth Century
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Venerable Trees: History, Biology, and Conservation in the Bluegrass
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4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
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3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Flavor of Wood: In Search of the Wild Taste of Trees from Smoke and Sap to Root and Bark
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3.76 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Tree Finder: A Manual for the Identification of Trees by Their Leaves
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4.23 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
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3.98 avg rating — 365 ratings
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While a Tree Grew, The Story of Maryland's Wye Oak
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Biophilic Urbanism
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Tree Climber’s Guide
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3.51 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet
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4.18 avg rating — 946 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.06 avg rating — 93,415 ratings
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Wise Trees: Ancient trees photographed worldwide, each holding centuries of history in gnarled bark and roots.
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4.46 avg rating — 186 ratings
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The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem
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4.27 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide
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4.49 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Urban Ecology: A Natural Way to Transform Kids, Parks, Cities, and the World
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4.43 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Botanical City
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Urban Smellscapes
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Ecology of Center City, Philadelphia
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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1001 Walks You Must Take Before You Die: Country Hikes, Heritage Trails, Coastal Strolls, Mountain Paths, City Walks
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3.67 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
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4.01 avg rating — 1,847 ratings
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Wild Philly: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Philadelphia (Wild Series)
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4.48 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild
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4.27 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Up By Roots
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local from 35 Urban Farmers
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3.93 avg rating — 60 ratings
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How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
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4.04 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
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4.01 avg rating — 976 ratings
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Natural History of Vacant Lots (California Natural History Guide No. 50)
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3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Nature All Around Us: A Guide to Urban Ecology
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3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life
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3.86 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
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3.71 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities
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4.08 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
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4.45 avg rating — 3,885 ratings
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Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
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4.36 avg rating — 7,457 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 73,313 ratings
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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4.20 avg rating — 18,284 ratings
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The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
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4.06 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
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The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
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4.13 avg rating — 7,513 ratings
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The New Sylva: A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century
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4.72 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
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4.24 avg rating — 4,483 ratings
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The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
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4.01 avg rating — 843 ratings
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The Urban Green Man
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3.96 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World
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4.04 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
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4.12 avg rating — 9,349 ratings
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Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes
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3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Grid and the River: Philadelphia’s Green Places, 1682–1876
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City
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4.12 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Forests Adrift: Currents Shaping the Future of Northeastern Trees
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3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
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4.56 avg rating — 952 ratings
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
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4.10 avg rating — 4,138 ratings
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The Trees in My Forest
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4.11 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods (UNH Non-Series Title)
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4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Wood for the Trees : The Long View of Nature From a Small Wood
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3.87 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests
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3.98 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology (Yale Nota Bene S)
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3.97 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter
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3.94 avg rating — 2,099 ratings
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Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
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3.95 avg rating — 657 ratings
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The Healing Power of Forests: The Philosophy Behind Restoring Earth's Balance with Native Trees
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4.23 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Arboreal: A Collection of Words from the Woods
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3.88 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction
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3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Long, Long Life of Trees
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3.89 avg rating — 354 ratings
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The Wisdom of Trees
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3.99 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
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3.77 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees
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3.75 avg rating — 93 ratings
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A Natural History Of North American Trees
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4.39 avg rating — 214 ratings
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