A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
By: Scott Zona
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Ever wonder whether plants sleep or why their leaves are shaped a certain way? The inner workings o…
Want to Read $ 16.99If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need by Scott Zona , here is a list of 20 books like this:
1. The Rehearsal
By: Eleanor Catton
3.91
Format: None pages,
All the world's a stage - and nowhere is it that more true than at an all-girls high school, partic… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Eleanor Catton's The Rehearsal book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
2. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.35
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Douglas W. Tallamy's The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- gardening
- plants
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
3. We Are the ARK: Returning Our Gardens to Their True Nature Through Acts of Restorative Kindness
By: Mary Reynolds
3.92
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
“Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city plann… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Mary Reynolds's We Are the ARK: Returning Our Gardens to Their True Nature Through Acts of Restorative Kindness book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
4. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Douglas W. Tallamy's Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
5. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
6. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Cat Bohannon's Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- biology
- nonfiction
- science
7. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Thomas Halliday's Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
8. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Dan Flores's Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
9. Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
By: David R. Montgomery
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A call to action that underscore… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in David R. Montgomery's Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"In many ways, soil degradation set the long-wavelenght pattern of history, as wars, natural disasters, and climate shifts pulled the trigger on environmental guns loaded by soil loss and degradation."-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
"People tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But that's not necessarily the case - and it hasn't been for most of history. While going organic has some big advantage…"-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
10. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- biology
- plants
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
11. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
By: Oliver Milman
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects ar… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Oliver Milman's The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
12. The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.03
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
From the international bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees An illuminating manifesto on … read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Peter Wohlleben's The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
13. The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
By: Erik Hoel
3.68
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences—potentially revoluti… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Erik Hoel's The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- nonfiction
- science
14. Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature
By: M. Amos Clifford
3.65
Format: 1 pages, Audio CD
Forest bathing is a gentle, meditative practice of connecting with nature. Simply being present wit… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in M. Amos Clifford's Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- nonfiction
- nature
15. The Nature of Plants: An Introduction to How Plants Work
By: Craig N Huegel
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Choice Outstanding Academic Title Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for General Nonfiction Plants p… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Craig N Huegel's The Nature of Plants: An Introduction to How Plants Work book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- biology
- gardening
- plants
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
16. A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
By: Scott Zona
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Ever wonder whether plants sleep or why their leaves are shaped a certain way? The inner workings o… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- biology
- gardening
- plants
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
17. The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
By: Sue Stuart-Smith
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the hea… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Sue Stuart-Smith's The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"De chemische bestanddelen van verschillende bloemengeuren stimuleren bepaalde stemmingen en beïnvloeden hoe alert of juist ontspannen we ons voelen. Zo is recent gebleken dat lavendel, waarvan de kal…"-Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
"Zelfs de kleinste wezens beschikken over een zenuwstelsel dat dopamine of aanverwante moleculen nodig heeft om tot zoek- en verzamelgedrag aan te zetten. De menselijke zenuwbanen zijn wellicht een co…"-Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
18. Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future
By: Daniel Lewis
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that re… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Daniel Lewis's Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- plants
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
19. The Science of Gardening: Discover How Your Garden Really Grows (DK Science of)
By: Stuart Farrimond
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Exploding myths and providing key takeaway advice for gardeners at any level, this book provides a … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Stuart Farrimond's The Science of Gardening: Discover How Your Garden Really Grows (DK Science of) book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
20. Epic Homesteading: Your Guide to Self-Sufficiency on a Modern, High-Tech, Backyard Homestead
By: Kevin Espiritu
4.17
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Followed by millions @epicgardening, Author Kevin Espiritu has built a modern, high-tech homestead … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Kevin Espiritu's Epic Homesteading: Your Guide to Self-Sufficiency on a Modern, High-Tech, Backyard Homestead book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- gardening
- nonfiction
21. Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
By: Paul Jepson
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Nature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn. Instead of conserving particu… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Paul Jepson's Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery book and Scott Zona's A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The Biology Behind the Plants You Love, How They Grow, and What They Need
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
