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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 187,493 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,972 ratings — published 1962
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,596 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,738 ratings — published 2014
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,685 ratings — published 1991
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,106 ratings — published 1983
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,036 ratings — published 1968
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,118 ratings — published 2014
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,319 ratings — published 1992
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,549 ratings — published 2004
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,104 ratings — published 2006
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,211 ratings — published 1986
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 823 ratings — published 1995
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,770 ratings — published 1974
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,463 ratings — published 2019
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,417 ratings — published 2017
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 794 ratings — published 2011
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,588 ratings — published 2015
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,229 ratings — published 1951
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,680 ratings — published 2003
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,444 ratings — published 2012
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 805 ratings — published 1995
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,419 ratings — published 2001
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,861 ratings — published 2007
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 719 ratings — published 2019
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,462 ratings — published 2019
Ecofeminism (Critique Influence Change)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 591 ratings — published 1993
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,014 ratings — published 2016
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 919 ratings — published 2017
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,915 ratings — published 2017
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,122 ratings — published 2016
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,348 ratings — published 2010
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,935 ratings — published 1977
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,007 ratings — published 2015
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,884 ratings — published 1986
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,926 ratings — published 1854
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 405 ratings — published 1986
Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 274 ratings — published 1999
No Impact Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,222 ratings — published 2009
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,281 ratings — published 2015
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 73,728 ratings — published 2024
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,668 ratings — published 2020
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,160 ratings — published 1989
In the Shadow of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,753 ratings — published 1971
On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,549 ratings — published 2019
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,653 ratings — published 2019
Losing Earth: A Recent History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,305 ratings — published 2018
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,085 ratings — published 2007
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,053 ratings — published 2016
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,623 ratings — published 2013
“We trust ourselves, far more than our ancestors did… The root of our predicament lies in the simple fact that, though we remain a flawed and unstable species, plagued now as in the past by a thousand weaknesses, we have insisted on both unlimited freedom and unlimited power. It would now seem clear that, if we want to stop the devastation of the earth, the growing threats to our food, water, air, and fellow creatures, we must find some way to limit both.”
― Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West
― Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West
