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The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 122,641 ratings — published 1859
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 448,618 ratings — published 1998
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 80,287 ratings — published 2009
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 39,206 ratings — published 1849
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 193,952 ratings — published 1976
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
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avg rating 4.04 — 50,799 ratings — published 1997
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 425,981 ratings — published 2003
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 119,483 ratings — published 1997
Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 2,230 ratings — published 2010
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,992 ratings — published 1954
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 205,376 ratings — published 1854
Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)
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avg rating 4.19 — 74,098 ratings — published 1997
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 73,217 ratings — published 1999
A Natural History of the Senses (Trade Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 7,943 ratings — published 1990
Игра на выживание (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.73 — 62 ratings — published
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 89,636 ratings — published 2015
The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)
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avg rating 4.26 — 56,077 ratings — published 2002
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 41,929 ratings — published 1986
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,938 ratings — published 1980
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 26,242 ratings — published 1990
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 52,254 ratings — published 2020
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 7,834 ratings — published 2016
Green Angel (Green Angel, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 12,308 ratings — published 2003
Green for Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,230 ratings — published 2005
When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,604 ratings — published 2006
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 20,881 ratings — published 1978
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 13,283 ratings — published 2004
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 26,025 ratings — published 1963
Slightly Out of Tune (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 70 ratings — published 2014
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 177,228 ratings — published 2013
Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 38,343 ratings — published 2008
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 82,273 ratings — published 2014
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 125,714 ratings — published 2013
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 80,017 ratings — published 2014
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 8,515 ratings — published 1839
Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 44,997 ratings — published 2010
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 21,014 ratings — published 2010
Five on a Treasure Island (Famous Five, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 36,804 ratings — published 1942
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
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avg rating 3.85 — 42,674 ratings — published 2008
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 9,139 ratings — published 2007
The Water Wars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.19 — 5,261 ratings — published 2011
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.14 — 18,509 ratings — published 2009
The Immense Journey (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,552 ratings — published 1957
Green Hills of Africa (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 13,463 ratings — published 1935
Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 1,349 ratings — published 2009
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 574,266 ratings — published 1997
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 28,755 ratings — published 1991
The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 529 ratings — published 2010
“If I could take a bite of the whole world
And feel it on my palate
I’d be more happy for a minute or so...
But I don’t always want to be happy.
Sometimes you have to be
Unhappy to be natural...
Not every day is sunny.
When there’s been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come.
So I take unhappiness with happiness
Naturally, like someone who doesn’t find it strange
That there are mountains and plains
And that there are cliffs and grass...
What you need is to be natural and calm
In happiness and in unhappiness,
To feel like someone seeing,
To think like someone walking,
And when it’s time to die, remember the day dies,
And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful...
That’s how it is and that’s how it should be...”
― The Keeper of Sheep
And feel it on my palate
I’d be more happy for a minute or so...
But I don’t always want to be happy.
Sometimes you have to be
Unhappy to be natural...
Not every day is sunny.
When there’s been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come.
So I take unhappiness with happiness
Naturally, like someone who doesn’t find it strange
That there are mountains and plains
And that there are cliffs and grass...
What you need is to be natural and calm
In happiness and in unhappiness,
To feel like someone seeing,
To think like someone walking,
And when it’s time to die, remember the day dies,
And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful...
That’s how it is and that’s how it should be...”
― The Keeper of Sheep
“Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, they weren’t natural at all. They were things that could be changed, and they were things that, more importantly, were wrong and should change, and once I realized that, there was really no going back.”
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