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Biodiversity Books
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,383 ratings — published 2014
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 8 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,240 ratings — published 1992
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.51 — 173,000 ratings — published 2013
Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth (Our Natural World)
by (shelved 5 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.32 — 475 ratings — published 2017
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,490 ratings — published 2006
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.46 — 35,577 ratings — published 2022
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,459 ratings — published 2018
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,937 ratings — published 2016
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,149 ratings — published 2021
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,672 ratings — published 1996
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.28 — 57,347 ratings — published 2024
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,826 ratings — published 2019
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.65 — 26 ratings — published 2019
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,952 ratings — published 1962
The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,260 ratings — published 2020
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.50 — 34,429 ratings — published 2020
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,428 ratings — published 2001
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,930 ratings — published 1998
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,527 ratings — published 2022
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.80 — 303,427 ratings — published 2014
Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back - An Illustrated Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.45 — 95 ratings — published
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,899 ratings — published 2016
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,141 ratings — published 2015
The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.50 — 240 ratings — published 2023
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,237 ratings — published 2021
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,064 ratings — published 2020
Life in the Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.95 — 38 ratings — published 1998
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,919 ratings — published 2021
The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.26 — 886 ratings — published 2004
Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.33 — 136 ratings — published 2019
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,717 ratings — published 2015
Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.55 — 22 ratings — published 2005
On the Edge: The State and Fate of the World's Tropical Rainforests (David Suzuki Institute)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 2015
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.26 — 966 ratings — published 2012
Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist's View of the Crisis We Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.91 — 23 ratings — published 2011
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,170 ratings — published 2006
Do We Need Pandas?: The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.97 — 106 ratings — published 2010
The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.35 — 62 ratings — published 2010
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.11 — 196,554 ratings — published 2018
Biodiversity (Papers from the 1st National Forum on Biodiversity, September 1986, Washington, D.C.)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.52 — 221 ratings — published 1988
The Book of Indian Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.45 — 299 ratings — published 1941
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.75 — 764 ratings — published 2015
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,889 ratings — published 1976
The Edge of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,540 ratings — published 1955
The Life of Mammals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,007 ratings — published 2002
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,265 ratings — published 2002
Is a River Alive? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,778 ratings — published 2025
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,177 ratings — published 2018
Etre plante à l'ombre des forêts tropicales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as biodiversity)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Plaidoyer pour l'arbre (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.20 — 15 ratings — published 2005
“the updated 2016 State of Nature report discovered that the UK has lost significantly more biodiversity over the long term than the world average. Ranked twenty-ninth lowest out of 218 countries, we are among the most nature-depleted countries in the world.”
― Wilding
― Wilding
“As early humans moved about, they were accompanied by a whole entourage of creatures they had come to depend on, or learned to coexist with — not only their crop plants and domesticated animals, which they carried with them deliberately, but also the creatures that had adopted them during their lengthy process of developing agriculture and animal husbandry and building habitations and cities, roads and canals, seaports and fortifications. To quote Anderson [Edgar Anderson, Plants, Man, and Life:]
‘Unconsciously as well as deliberately man carries whole floras about the globe with him, he now lives surrounded by transported landscapes, and our commonest everyday plants have been transformed by their long associations with us so that many roadsides and dooryard plants are artifacts. An artifact, by definition, is something produced by man, something which we would not have if man had not come into being. That is what many of our weeds and crops really are.”
― Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
‘Unconsciously as well as deliberately man carries whole floras about the globe with him, he now lives surrounded by transported landscapes, and our commonest everyday plants have been transformed by their long associations with us so that many roadsides and dooryard plants are artifacts. An artifact, by definition, is something produced by man, something which we would not have if man had not come into being. That is what many of our weeds and crops really are.”
― Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
