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The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 293,272 ratings — published 1950
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as planet)
avg rating 4.50 — 188,677 ratings — published 2013
Impact (Wyman Ford, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as planet)
avg rating 3.86 — 13,050 ratings — published 2010
Olympos (Ilium, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as planet)
avg rating 3.96 — 21,165 ratings — published 2005
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as planet)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,820 ratings — published 1996
Silent Spring (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 57,129 ratings — published 1962
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as planet)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,152 ratings — published 2014
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 90,715 ratings — published 1992
Red Planet (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 11,204 ratings — published 1949
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 41,728 ratings — published 1993
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as planet)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,681 ratings — published 2020
The Martian Way and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as planet)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,875 ratings — published 1955
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as planet)
avg rating 3.81 — 61,579 ratings — published 1912
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as planet)
avg rating 4.01 — 45,258 ratings — published 1965
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as planet)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,939 ratings — published 2015
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as planet)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,181 ratings — published 2019
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as planet)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,421 ratings — published 2017
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as planet)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,779 ratings — published 2021
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as planet)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,126 ratings — published 2020
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 6,903 ratings — published 2020
What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as planet)
avg rating 4.06 — 394 ratings — published
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as planet)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,459 ratings — published 2010
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as planet)
avg rating 4.48 — 8,175 ratings — published 2017
The Master Mind of Mars (Barsoom #6)
by (shelved 3 times as planet)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,261 ratings — published 1927
Martian Time-Slip (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 14,911 ratings — published 1964
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as planet)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,036 ratings — published 2006
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.34 — 193,408 ratings — published 2021
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,764 ratings — published 2024
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,656 ratings — published 2022
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,731 ratings — published 2022
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,797 ratings — published 2020
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,272 ratings — published 2022
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.21 — 434,895 ratings — published 2003
What a Waste: Trash, Recycling, and Protecting our Planet (Protect the Planet)
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avg rating 4.47 — 487 ratings — published
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 18,121 ratings — published 2021
The Overstory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 208,594 ratings — published 2018
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,679 ratings — published 2019
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,061 ratings — published 2019
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,310 ratings — published 2017
How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 3.88 — 954 ratings — published 2021
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,840 ratings — published 2021
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,702 ratings — published 2012
Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,638 ratings — published 2020
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,838 ratings — published 2003
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,443 ratings — published 2021
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,286 ratings — published 2019
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,252 ratings — published 2017
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as planet)
avg rating 4.05 — 926 ratings — published 2014
“We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure – to experience the world as a dynamic presence – as a changeable, interactive thing?
If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality.
And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless.
This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.
I can’t cool boiling waters in Russia. I can’t be Picasso. I can’t be Jesus. I can’t save the planet single-handedly.
I can wash dishes.”
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If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality.
And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless.
This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.
I can’t cool boiling waters in Russia. I can’t be Picasso. I can’t be Jesus. I can’t save the planet single-handedly.
I can wash dishes.”
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“Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.”
― The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
― The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
