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Ecology Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 427 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.51 — 169,995 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,611 ratings — published 1962
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,282 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,334 ratings — published 2020
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,054 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,944 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,326 ratings — published 2003
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,297 ratings — published 2024
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.11 — 194,325 ratings — published 2018
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,637 ratings — published 2014
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,646 ratings — published 2021
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,291 ratings — published 2007
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,025 ratings — published 2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,485 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,056 ratings — published 2006
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,734 ratings — published 2019
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,521 ratings — published 2004
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,586 ratings — published 1854
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,276 ratings — published 2001
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,449 ratings — published 2013
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 67 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,614,088 ratings — published 1965
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,994 ratings — published 1983
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,373 ratings — published 2018
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,403 ratings — published 1996
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,229 ratings — published 1992
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.46 — 34,984 ratings — published 2022
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,303 ratings — published 2012
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,647 ratings — published 1996
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,038 ratings — published 1990
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,339 ratings — published 2018
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,124 ratings — published 1975
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,791 ratings — published 2016
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,209 ratings — published 1968
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,647 ratings — published 2023
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,384 ratings — published 2017
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,165 ratings — published 2017
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,177 ratings — published 2021
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 8,954 ratings — published 2020
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,326 ratings — published 1979
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,426 ratings — published 2024
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,417 ratings — published 2021
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,561 ratings — published 1997
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,687 ratings — published 1974
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,003 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 — 34,132 ratings — published 2020
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,720 ratings — published 2019
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,941 ratings — published 2019
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 858 ratings — published 1982
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,121 ratings — published 1989
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,685 ratings — published 1977
“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.”
― Dune
― Dune
“All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion












