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Nature Writing Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.51 — 171,338 ratings — published 2013
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.74 — 80,542 ratings — published 2014
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,753 ratings — published 1974
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,883 ratings — published 1854
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,061 ratings — published 1977
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,173 ratings — published 1949
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,017 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 4.07 — 88,606 ratings — published 2015
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,328 ratings — published 1968
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,468 ratings — published 2003
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,442 ratings — published 2012
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,745 ratings — published 1962
Landmarks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,430 ratings — published 2015
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,407 ratings — published 2018
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,341 ratings — published 2016
The Wild Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,622 ratings — published 2007
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,009 ratings — published 1986
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,646 ratings — published 2020
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,874 ratings — published 1967
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 444,492 ratings — published 1998
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 195,250 ratings — published 2018
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,739 ratings — published 2024
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,506 ratings — published 2007
The Outrun (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,690 ratings — published 2015
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,329 ratings — published 2014
My First Summer in the Sierra (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,405 ratings — published 1911
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,497 ratings — published 1978
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,534 ratings — published 2003
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 865,260 ratings — published 2012
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,188,801 ratings — published 1996
Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,386 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 — 59,600 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 — 24,056 ratings — published 2020
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,580 ratings — published 2015
The Solace of Open Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,431 ratings — published 1984
Sightlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,780 ratings — published 2012
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,223 ratings — published 2020
The Salt Path (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.95 — 101,371 ratings — published 2018
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,762 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 — 4,225 ratings — published 1983
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,311 ratings — published 2012
The Lost Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.48 — 6,685 ratings — published 2017
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,687 ratings — published 2015
The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,928 ratings — published 1928
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,602,566 ratings — published 2018
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,422 ratings — published 2010
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,491 ratings — published 2016
Findings (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,773 ratings — published 2005
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.46 — 35,222 ratings — published 2022
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,329 ratings — published 2001
“In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.”
― The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
― The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Also at times, on the surface of streams,
Water?bubbles form
And grow and burst
And have no meaning at all
Except that they’re water?bubbles
Growing and bursting.”
― The Keeper of Sheep
Water?bubbles form
And grow and burst
And have no meaning at all
Except that they’re water?bubbles
Growing and bursting.”
― The Keeper of Sheep
