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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
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Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
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Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
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4.41 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil
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3.71 avg rating — 17 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 — 2,567 ratings
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Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests
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4.10 avg rating — 476 ratings
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Soil Grown Tall: The Epic Saga of Life from Earth
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Vegetal Entwinements in Philosophy and Art: A Reader
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Why Look at Plants?: The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art (Critical Plant Studies, 5)
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
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4.11 avg rating — 2,695 ratings
"2017, 2627 ratings"
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Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
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3.91 avg rating — 2,923 ratings
"2013, 2858 ratings"
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The Incredible Journey of Plants
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4.15 avg rating — 2,559 ratings
"2018, 2489 ratings"
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The Nation of Plants
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3.95 avg rating — 2,496 ratings
"2019, 2393 ratings"
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Tree Stories: How trees plant our world and connect our lives
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4.11 avg rating — 127 ratings
"2023, 113 ratings"
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The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
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3.75 avg rating — 972 ratings
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This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World
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4.09 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
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4.01 avg rating — 3,809 ratings
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Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
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3.41 avg rating — 843 ratings
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What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
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4.04 avg rating — 4,043 ratings
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In Praise of Plants
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4.26 avg rating — 86 ratings
"The best book to compare plants and animals, and going back as well to single cellular life and our common ancestors."
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Plants, Man and Life
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3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
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In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants
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4.14 avg rating — 759 ratings
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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
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The Constituents of Medicinal Plants [OP]: An Introduction to the Chemistry and Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine
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4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant Color
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4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
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3.96 avg rating — 8,288 ratings
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Orwell's Roses
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4.16 avg rating — 4,783 ratings
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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
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4.26 avg rating — 575 ratings
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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
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4.27 avg rating — 62,442 ratings
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The Sound of Music and Plants
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
"The 1973 classic. "After documenting the results of my scientifically controlled experiments at Temple Buell College, I felt free to speculate on the possibilities of such a correlation…""
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Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
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4.30 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
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3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
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4.08 avg rating — 602 ratings
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The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival
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4.08 avg rating — 147 ratings
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How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
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Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction
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3.85 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
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4.32 avg rating — 247 ratings
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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
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4.17 avg rating — 465 ratings
"Especially chapter 1 on 'sentience,' which covers the work of several other people in this list."
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
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3.87 avg rating — 34,157 ratings
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The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (Acumen Handbooks)
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4.46 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
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4.02 avg rating — 987 ratings
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Casting Deep Shade: An Amble
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4.35 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Twilight of the Hemlocks and Beeches (Keystone Books)
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
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3.75 avg rating — 167 ratings
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When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature
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4.10 avg rating — 354 ratings
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How Flowers Changed the World
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4.27 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
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3.69 avg rating — 518 ratings
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The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are: Connecting to the Living Medicine of Wild Plants
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4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies
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4.57 avg rating — 168 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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Hawthorn: The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages
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3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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4.06 avg rating — 288 ratings
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We Are the ARK: Returning Our Gardens to Their True Nature Through Acts of Restorative Kindness
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3.95 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People
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3.76 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
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3.90 avg rating — 2,349 ratings
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The Mythology of Plants: Botanical Lore from Ancient Greece and Rome
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3.76 avg rating — 70 ratings
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What a Plant Knows: a field guide to the senses
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4.04 avg rating — 4,043 ratings
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The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature
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3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge
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3.88 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants
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3.74 avg rating — 733 ratings
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The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture
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3.87 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
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4.08 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest
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4.28 avg rating — 47 ratings
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This Book Was a Tree: Ideas, Adventures, and Inspiration for Rediscovering the Natural World
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3.65 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Tree Climber’s Guide
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3.50 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest
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4.08 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Is a River Alive?
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4.19 avg rating — 5,815 ratings
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Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
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3.99 avg rating — 5,652 ratings
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Something in the Woods Loves You
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4.28 avg rating — 2,167 ratings
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How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
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4.11 avg rating — 806 ratings
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Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
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4.20 avg rating — 2,134 ratings
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Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
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William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Revered Roots: Ancestral Teachings and Wisdom of Wild, Edible, and Medicinal Plants
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A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants – A Witty Memoir on Botanical Science and Gardening
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3.85 avg rating — 466 ratings
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The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants
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4.34 avg rating — 194 ratings
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If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
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4.25 avg rating — 4,860 ratings
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Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
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4.01 avg rating — 1,664 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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4.11 avg rating — 3,110 ratings
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Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
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4.47 avg rating — 386 ratings
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The Meaning of Trees: Botany - History - Healing - Lore
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4.19 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
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4.10 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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Britain's Tree Story: The History and Legends of Britain's Ancient Trees
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4.12 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Lost Rainforests of Britain
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4.28 avg rating — 2,159 ratings
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The Old Patriarch Tree: An Ancient Teton Pine Shares Stories of the American West (The History Series Book 2)
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 59,688 ratings
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Death by Landscape
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4.19 avg rating — 402 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 — 14,778 ratings
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The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
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4.12 avg rating — 2,833 ratings
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Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
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3.67 avg rating — 1,971 ratings
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Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives
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3.77 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence
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3.73 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Plant Magick. The Library of Esoterica
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4.28 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred
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4.26 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism
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4.36 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness
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4.23 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium
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4.40 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Botany for Gardeners
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4.21 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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The Nature of Plants: An Introduction to How Plants Work
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4.09 avg rating — 213 ratings
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How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do
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4.22 avg rating — 494 ratings
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