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Ecology Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 440 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 177,775 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,551 ratings — published 1962
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 89,772 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,392 ratings — published 2020
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,773 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,095 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.38 — 21,377 ratings — published 2003
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,467 ratings — published 2024
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.11 — 199,956 ratings — published 2018
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,861 ratings — published 2014
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,194 ratings — published 2021
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,321 ratings — published 2015
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,553 ratings — published 2007
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,099 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,950 ratings — published 2006
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,021 ratings — published 2004
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,067 ratings — published 2019
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.77 — 205,498 ratings — published 1854
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,752 ratings — published 2001
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,515 ratings — published 2013
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,050 ratings — published 1983
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,629 ratings — published 2018
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,479 ratings — published 1996
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,648,479 ratings — published 1965
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 65 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,253 ratings — published 1992
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.46 — 36,632 ratings — published 2022
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,606 ratings — published 2018
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,357 ratings — published 2012
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,250 ratings — published 1975
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,695 ratings — published 1996
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,702 ratings — published 2024
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,914 ratings — published 2023
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,356 ratings — published 2017
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,613 ratings — published 2017
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,270 ratings — published 1990
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,002 ratings — published 1968
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,892 ratings — published 2016
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,358 ratings — published 2021
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,962 ratings — published 2019
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,364 ratings — published 1979
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,149 ratings — published 1974
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,391 ratings — published 2020
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,462 ratings — published 2019
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,377 ratings — published 2021
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,847 ratings — published 2021
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 34,913 ratings — published 2020
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,924 ratings — published 1997
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,140 ratings — published 1989
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,786 ratings — published 1977
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 870 ratings — published 1982
“You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.”
― The Best of Edward Abbey
― The Best of Edward Abbey
“We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.”
― The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
― The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History












