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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,483 ratings — published 1949
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,143 ratings — published 1962
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,157 ratings — published 1990
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,619 ratings — published 2014
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,416 ratings — published 2009
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,872 ratings — published 2019
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.51 — 174,593 ratings — published 2013
The Elephant Whisperer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.50 — 33,043 ratings — published 2009
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,649 ratings — published 1968
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.11 — 197,751 ratings — published 2018
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.07 — 89,489 ratings — published 2015
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,017 ratings — published 2012
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,489 ratings — published 2013
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,544 ratings — published 2021
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,521 ratings — published 2018
Wilderness and the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,057 ratings — published 1967
A Boy and a Jaguar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,426 ratings — published 2014
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,335 ratings — published 2020
Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.98 — 287 ratings — published 2009
Hoot (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 110,728 ratings — published 2002
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,268 ratings — published 2002
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.28 — 59,485 ratings — published 2024
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.48 — 8,924 ratings — published 2020
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,942 ratings — published 2016
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,474 ratings — published 2018
That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,397 ratings — published 2019
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,710 ratings — published 2016
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,206 ratings — published 1983
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,418 ratings — published 2009
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,679 ratings — published 1996
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,676 ratings — published 1854
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,086 ratings — published 2008
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.50 — 34,611 ratings — published 2020
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,895 ratings — published 2003
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,468 ratings — published 2010
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 21,006 ratings — published 2021
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,119 ratings — published 2021
The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.98 — 419 ratings — published 2019
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,193 ratings — published 2016
Elephant Dawn: The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.47 — 698 ratings — published
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,411 ratings — published 2009
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 25,944 ratings — published 1963
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,944 ratings — published 1986
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,439 ratings — published 2007
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,792 ratings — published 2023
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,181 ratings — published 2021
One Little Bag: An Amazing Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.36 — 888 ratings — published 2020
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,932 ratings — published 2019
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,518 ratings — published 2017
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,095 ratings — published 2005
“There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.”
― Sharkwater
― Sharkwater
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
