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Plants Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as plants)
avg rating 4.50 — 184,008 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as plants)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,578 ratings — published 2015
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 162 times as plants)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,225 ratings — published 2001
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as plants)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,238 ratings — published 2003
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as plants)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,317 ratings — published 2009
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as plants)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,050 ratings — published 2024
The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as plants)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,373 ratings — published 2019
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as plants)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,098 ratings — published 2012
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as plants)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,829 ratings — published 2016
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as plants)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,384 ratings — published 1973
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as plants)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,847 ratings — published 2013
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as plants)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,310 ratings — published 1998
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as plants)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,076 ratings — published 2020
The Tiny Seed (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as plants)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,315 ratings — published 1970
This Is Your Mind on Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as plants)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,899 ratings — published 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as plants)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,747 ratings — published 2021
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as plants)
avg rating 4.27 — 70,234 ratings — published 2024
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as plants)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,138 ratings — published 2015
How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as plants)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,989 ratings — published 2017
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as plants)
avg rating 4.11 — 204,896 ratings — published 2018
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as plants)
avg rating 3.82 — 973 ratings — published 2010
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as plants)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,799 ratings — published 2007
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as plants)
avg rating 3.66 — 22,768 ratings — published 1998
Plantopedia: The Definitive Guide to Houseplants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as plants)
avg rating 4.55 — 514 ratings — published 2020
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as plants)
avg rating 3.75 — 980 ratings — published 2016
Wild at Home: How to style and care for beautiful plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as plants)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,448 ratings — published 2019
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as plants)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,749 ratings — published 2017
Planting a Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as plants)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,392 ratings — published 1988
The Private Life of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as plants)
avg rating 4.44 — 731 ratings — published 1994
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as plants)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,516 ratings — published 2021
Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as plants)
avg rating 4.51 — 4,415 ratings — published 2020
The Carrot Seed (Board Book)
by (shelved 31 times as plants)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,342 ratings — published 1945
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as plants)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,218 ratings — published 1985
The Green Witch: Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More (Green Witch Witchcraft Series)
by (shelved 30 times as plants)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,983 ratings — published 2017
Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as plants)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,578 ratings — published 2021
Botanicum (Welcome to the Museum)
by (shelved 29 times as plants)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,139 ratings — published 2016
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as plants)
avg rating 3.68 — 816 ratings — published 2010
A Seed Is Sleepy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as plants)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,139 ratings — published 2007
Botany for Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as plants)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,445 ratings — published 1990
From Seed to Plant (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as plants)
avg rating 4.02 — 963 ratings — published 1991
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as plants)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,375 ratings — published 2018
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as plants)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,460 ratings — published 1979
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as plants)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,429 ratings — published 2018
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as plants)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,953 ratings — published 2001
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as plants)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,410 ratings — published 2012
Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as plants)
avg rating 4.54 — 838 ratings — published 1994
The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as plants)
avg rating 4.26 — 896 ratings — published 2004
Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as plants)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,985 ratings — published 2013
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as plants)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,085 ratings — published 2005
Leaf Supply: A Guide to Keeping Happy House Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as plants)
avg rating 4.02 — 388 ratings — published 2018
“Would not the earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with poisonous shrubs... Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance?”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean.”
― Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science
― Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science
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