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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2262 times as nature)
avg rating 4.50 — 187,187 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2202 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,490 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1449 times as nature)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,878 ratings — published 2020
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1252 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 456,416 ratings — published 1998
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1187 times as nature)
avg rating 4.11 — 207,371 ratings — published 2018
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1041 times as nature)
avg rating 4.26 — 73,452 ratings — published 2024
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 1037 times as nature)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,871 ratings — published 1854
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 974 times as nature)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,570 ratings — published 1949
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 960 times as nature)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,223 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 924 times as nature)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,653 ratings — published 2003
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 865 times as nature)
avg rating 4.46 — 38,620 ratings — published 2022
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 858 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,939 ratings — published 1962
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 819 times as nature)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,219,929 ratings — published 1996
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 816 times as nature)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,769,349 ratings — published 2018
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 774 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,744 ratings — published 1974
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 763 times as nature)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,004 ratings — published 1968
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 759 times as nature)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,975 ratings — published 2015
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 737 times as nature)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,993 ratings — published 2021
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 706 times as nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 885,497 ratings — published 2012
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 683 times as nature)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,254 ratings — published 2019
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 674 times as nature)
avg rating 3.94 — 63,155 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 629 times as nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,700 ratings — published 2014
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 610 times as nature)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,236 ratings — published 2016
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 585 times as nature)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,145 ratings — published 2020
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 573 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,404 ratings — published 2001
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 523 times as nature)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,772 ratings — published 2021
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as nature)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,250 ratings — published 2017
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 496 times as nature)
avg rating 4.02 — 17,971 ratings — published 2024
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 472 times as nature)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,025 ratings — published 1977
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 469 times as nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,649 ratings — published 2010
Raising Hare: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 456 times as nature)
avg rating 4.27 — 44,630 ratings — published 2025
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 445 times as nature)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,040 ratings — published 2012
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 441 times as nature)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,986 ratings — published 2018
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 440 times as nature)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,007 ratings — published 2016
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 433 times as nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,748 ratings — published 2023
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 429 times as nature)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,072 ratings — published 2016
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 418 times as nature)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,593 ratings — published 2017
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 415 times as nature)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,632 ratings — published 2024
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 405 times as nature)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,413 ratings — published 2016
Is a River Alive? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 393 times as nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,442 ratings — published 2025
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills ( (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as nature)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,403 ratings — published 2014
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 389 times as nature)
avg rating 4.26 — 587,026 ratings — published 1997
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 382 times as nature)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,488 ratings — published 2020
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 369 times as nature)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,442 ratings — published 2012
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 358 times as nature)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,284 ratings — published 2018
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 352 times as nature)
avg rating 4.50 — 35,965 ratings — published 2020
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as nature)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,289 ratings — published 1986
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,434 ratings — published 1978
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as nature)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,235 ratings — published 1859
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as nature)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,394 ratings — published 2005
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
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