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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.50 — 191,797 ratings — published 2013
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 86,133 ratings — published 2014
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 31,124 ratings — published 1974
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,306 ratings — published 1977
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.77 — 209,163 ratings — published 1854
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,961 ratings — published 1949
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,559 ratings — published 2019
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,825 ratings — published 2015
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,454 ratings — published 1968
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,197 ratings — published 2012
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,231 ratings — published 2003
Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,017 ratings — published
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,515 ratings — published 1962
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,594 ratings — published 2016
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,363 ratings — published 1986
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,047 ratings — published 2020
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 77,340 ratings — published 2024
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,156 ratings — published 2018
Landmarks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,689 ratings — published 2015
The Wild Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,958 ratings — published 2007
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,451 ratings — published 1967
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 460,203 ratings — published 1998
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 210,812 ratings — published 2018
The Outrun (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 19,124 ratings — published 2015
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,461 ratings — published 2014
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,710 ratings — published 1978
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,583 ratings — published 2007
My First Summer in the Sierra (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,751 ratings — published 1911
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,098 ratings — published 2003
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,229,236 ratings — published 1996
Raising Hare: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,080 ratings — published 2025
Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,586 ratings — published 1999
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.94 — 64,070 ratings — published 2015
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,400 ratings — published 2020
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,475 ratings — published 2015
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 892,468 ratings — published 2012
Sightlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,843 ratings — published 2012
Is a River Alive? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 9,527 ratings — published 2025
The Solace of Open Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,849 ratings — published 1984
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,580 ratings — published 2020
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,208 ratings — published 1928
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,491 ratings — published 2012
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,611 ratings — published 2015
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,029 ratings — published 1991
A Country Year: Living the Questions – A Woman's Memoir of Solitude, Bees, and Healing on an Ozarks Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,503 ratings — published 1983
The Salt Path (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 108,691 ratings — published 2018
The Lost Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,995 ratings — published 2017
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 34 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,812,121 ratings — published 2018
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,224 ratings — published 2010
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,198 ratings — published 1982
“Love makes us say crazy things. It doesn’t mean we stop loving people.”
― Loon Cove Summer
― Loon Cove Summer
“This is biodiversity: a delicate web of life that we are slowly and systematically dismantling.”
― The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
― The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
