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Botany Books
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 180 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,231 ratings — published 2001
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as botany)
avg rating 4.50 — 184,120 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,606 ratings — published 2015
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as botany)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,310 ratings — published 1998
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as botany)
avg rating 3.88 — 126,841 ratings — published 2013
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as botany)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,317 ratings — published 2009
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as botany)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,247 ratings — published 2003
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as botany)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,850 ratings — published 2013
Botany for Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as botany)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,445 ratings — published 1990
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as botany)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,834 ratings — published 2016
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as botany)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,069 ratings — published 2024
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as botany)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,116 ratings — published 2020
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,139 ratings — published 2015
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as botany)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,099 ratings — published 2012
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as botany)
avg rating 4.53 — 310 ratings — published 1994
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as botany)
avg rating 3.66 — 22,772 ratings — published 1998
This Is Your Mind on Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as botany)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,908 ratings — published 2021
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as botany)
avg rating 3.75 — 980 ratings — published 2016
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 3.82 — 973 ratings — published 2010
The Private Life of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 4.44 — 731 ratings — published 1994
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as botany)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,755 ratings — published 2021
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as botany)
avg rating 4.27 — 70,347 ratings — published 2024
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as botany)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,085 ratings — published 2005
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as botany)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,385 ratings — published 1973
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 3.68 — 816 ratings — published 2010
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,300 ratings — published 2008
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as botany)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,299 ratings — published 2023
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 240 ratings — published 2012
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 663 ratings — published 2007
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as botany)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,142 ratings — published 1994
A Textbook of Botany (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.01 — 87 ratings — published
Botanicum (Welcome to the Museum)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,139 ratings — published 2016
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.11 — 204,973 ratings — published 2018
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,748 ratings — published 2017
A Text Book of Botany (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 3.72 — 264 ratings — published 2009
Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as botany)
avg rating 4.36 — 195 ratings — published 2013
The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora – An Entertaining Encyclopedia from Magic Mushrooms to Toxic Teas (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as botany)
avg rating 3.73 — 502 ratings — published
Biology of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 352 ratings — published 1976
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 497 ratings — published 2011
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,199 ratings — published 1991
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as botany)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,429 ratings — published 2018
Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as botany)
avg rating 4.34 — 50 ratings — published 1984
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as botany)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,225 ratings — published 2007
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,801 ratings — published 2007
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,400 ratings — published 2005
Flora: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Plant Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.69 — 222 ratings — published
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,661 ratings — published 2015
Plant Systematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.30 — 77 ratings — published 2005
Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.48 — 568 ratings — published 2010
Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology (Fourth Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as botany)
avg rating 4.02 — 143 ratings — published 1991
“It’s not that plants are human, but that humans are just one kind of person, as are animals. Personhood means one has agency and volition, and the right to exist for their own sake.”
― The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
― The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
“The hallway leading to Botany is lined with cabinets full of dried plants laid out on acid-free paper. Today, I imagine them as a vertical garden, orchids and epiphytes dripping from the sides, a phantom scent of humid forest.”
― The Marsh Queen
― The Marsh Queen
