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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 94,285 ratings — published 2015
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,695 ratings — published 2003
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.49 — 193,564 ratings — published 2013
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,430 ratings — published 2020
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,342,141 ratings — published 2011
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,982 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,804 ratings — published 2010
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.21 — 496,219 ratings — published 1988
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.46 — 39,852 ratings — published 2022
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,796 ratings — published 2017
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 57,734 ratings — published 1962
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,753 ratings — published 1980
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as science-nature)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,547 ratings — published 2016
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.01 — 125,221 ratings — published 1859
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,665 ratings — published 2015
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.31 — 38,082 ratings — published 1949
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as science-nature)
avg rating 3.94 — 64,333 ratings — published 2015
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,982 ratings — published 2003
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,430 ratings — published 2003
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,762 ratings — published 2001
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.22 — 44,590 ratings — published 2018
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.13 — 202,353 ratings — published 2014
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,531 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as science-nature)
avg rating 3.73 — 86,464 ratings — published 2014
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as science-nature)
avg rating 3.81 — 44,042 ratings — published 2007
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,512 ratings — published 2021
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,326 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.34 — 119,341 ratings — published 2010
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as science-nature)
avg rating 3.92 — 58,413 ratings — published 2010
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 461,236 ratings — published 1998
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,944 ratings — published 2019
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,962 ratings — published 1976
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as science-nature)
avg rating 3.84 — 32,399 ratings — published 2021
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.16 — 34,006 ratings — published 2016
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,779 ratings — published 1995
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as science-nature)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,082 ratings — published 2016
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as science-nature)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,651 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,572 ratings — published 1999
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,201 ratings — published 1994
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,823 ratings — published 2006
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as science-nature)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,566 ratings — published 1995
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.07 — 31,283 ratings — published 1974
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.04 — 256,334 ratings — published 1985
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,587 ratings — published 1968
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.04 — 476,199 ratings — published 1997
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,661 ratings — published 2019
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,660 ratings — published 2016
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,653 ratings — published 2015
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.25 — 79,712 ratings — published 2024
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as science-nature)
avg rating 4.36 — 241,514 ratings — published 2017
“the word fish means both the animal and the act of catching it”
― What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
― What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
“photos of their gaping, rotting bodies stretching to the horizon remind me that our subjects name is synonymous with its own demise, for the word fish means both the animal adn the act of catching it”
― What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
― What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
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