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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 181 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,749 ratings — published 2001
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as botany)
avg rating 4.50 — 177,750 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 89,765 ratings — published 2015
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as botany)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,295 ratings — published 1998
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as botany)
avg rating 3.88 — 125,788 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 — 11,199 ratings — published 2009
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as botany)
avg rating 4.38 — 21,375 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 — 10,724 ratings — published 2013
Botany for Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as botany)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,428 ratings — published 1990
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as botany)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,282 ratings — published 2016
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as botany)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,389 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 4.11 — 3,110 ratings — published 2015
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,699 ratings — published 2024
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as botany)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,050 ratings — published 2012
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as botany)
avg rating 4.52 — 306 ratings — published 1994
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as botany)
avg rating 3.66 — 22,317 ratings — published 1998
This Is Your Mind on Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as botany)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,247 ratings — published 2021
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 3.75 — 973 ratings — published 2016
The Private Life of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 4.44 — 728 ratings — published 1994
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as botany)
avg rating 3.82 — 965 ratings — published 2010
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as botany)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,193 ratings — published 2021
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 — 2,067 ratings — published 2005
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 3.68 — 809 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 — 1,278 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,356 ratings — published 1973
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as botany)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,444 ratings — published 2024
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as botany)
avg rating 4.25 — 237 ratings — published 2012
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as botany)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,943 ratings — published 2023
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as botany)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,136 ratings — published 1994
A Textbook of Botany (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.01 — 87 ratings — published
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 653 ratings — published 2007
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,704 ratings — published 2017
A Text Book of Botany (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 3.71 — 265 ratings — published 2009
Botanicum (Welcome to the Museum)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,136 ratings — published 2016
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as botany)
avg rating 4.11 — 199,937 ratings — published 2018
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 3.74 — 496 ratings — published
Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 4.36 — 190 ratings — published 2013
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 495 ratings — published 2011
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,145 ratings — published 1991
Biology of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as botany)
avg rating 4.11 — 352 ratings — published 1976
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as botany)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,413 ratings — published 2018
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as botany)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,114 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 — 3,706 ratings — published 2007
Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.34 — 50 ratings — published 1984
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,381 ratings — published 2005
Flora: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Plant Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.69 — 220 ratings — published
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,095 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 — 564 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
“Alma wrote in depth about laurel, mimosa, and verbena. She wrote about grapes and camellias, about the myrtle orange, about the cosseting of figs, She published under the name "A. Whittaker." Neither she nor George Hawkes believed that it would much benefit Alma to announce herself in print as female. In the scientific world of the day, there was still a strict division between "botany" (the study of plants by men) and "polite botany" was often indistinguishable from "botany"- except that one field was regarded with respect and the other was not- but still, Alma did not wish to be shrugged off as a mere polite botanist.
Of course, the Whittaker name was famous in the world of plants and science, so a good number of botanists already knew precisely who "A. Whittaker" was. Not all of them, however. In response to her articles, then, Alma sometimes received letters from botanists around the world, sent to her in care of George Hawkes's print shop. Some of these letters began, "My dear Sir." Other letters were written to "Mr. A. Whittaker." One quite memorable missive even came addressed to "Dr. A. Whittaker." ( Alma kept that letter for a long time, tickled by the unexpected honorific.)”
― The Signature of All Things
Of course, the Whittaker name was famous in the world of plants and science, so a good number of botanists already knew precisely who "A. Whittaker" was. Not all of them, however. In response to her articles, then, Alma sometimes received letters from botanists around the world, sent to her in care of George Hawkes's print shop. Some of these letters began, "My dear Sir." Other letters were written to "Mr. A. Whittaker." One quite memorable missive even came addressed to "Dr. A. Whittaker." ( Alma kept that letter for a long time, tickled by the unexpected honorific.)”
― The Signature of All Things
“The leaves of the world comprise countless billion elaborations of a single, simple machine designed for one job only – a job upon which hinges humankind. Leaves make sugar. Plants are the only things in the universe that can make sugar out of nonliving inorganic matter. All the sugar that you have ever eaten was first made within a leaf. Without a constant supply of glucose to your brain, you will die. Period. Under duress, your liver can make glucose out of protein or fat – but that protein or fat was originally constructed from a plant sugar within some other animal. It’s inescapable: at this very moment, within the synapses of your brain, leaves are fueling thoughts of leaves.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
