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Conservation Books
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,060 ratings — published 1949
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,614 ratings — published 1962
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,038 ratings — published 1990
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,271 ratings — published 2009
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,947 ratings — published 2014
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.51 — 170,021 ratings — published 2013
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,720 ratings — published 2019
The Elephant Whisperer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,650 ratings — published 2009
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,213 ratings — published 1968
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.11 — 194,344 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 — 88,287 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 — 3,969 ratings — published 2012
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,449 ratings — published 2013
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,521 ratings — published 2021
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,373 ratings — published 2018
Wilderness and the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,042 ratings — published 1967
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 — 6,231 ratings — published 2020
A Boy and a Jaguar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,423 ratings — published 2014
Hoot (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 110,444 ratings — published 2002
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,259 ratings — published 2002
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.49 — 8,844 ratings — published 2020
Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.98 — 286 ratings — published 2009
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,344 ratings — published 2024
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,919 ratings — published 2016
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,532 ratings — published 2016
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 — 1,410 ratings — published 2009
That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,360 ratings — published 2019
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,339 ratings — published 2018
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,157 ratings — published 1983
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,647 ratings — published 1996
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,595 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 — 2,084 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 — 34,134 ratings — published 2020
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,331 ratings — published 2003
The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.99 — 412 ratings — published 2019
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,779 ratings — published 2010
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,393 ratings — published 2021
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,572 ratings — published 2021
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,157 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 4.46 — 693 ratings — published
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,404 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 — 25,821 ratings — published 1963
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,866 ratings — published 1986
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,290 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 — 3,648 ratings — published 2023
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 — 29,735 ratings — published 2019
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,386 ratings — published 2017
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.04 — 155,902 ratings — published 2008
Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Readings in Conservation)
by (shelved 11 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.87 — 30 ratings — published 1996
“Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen is ten stories tall and wraps around you. The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museu, the popular museum on Earth, has premiered in its Langley Theater some of the best of these films. 'To Fly' brings a catch to my throat even after five or six viewings. I've seen religious leaders of many denominations witness 'Blue Planet' and be converted on the spot to the need to protect the Earth's environment”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“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
