5 Best ecology books like We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility by Michael J. Moore

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We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility

By: Michael J. Moore

4.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Relating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we…

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1. Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

By: Mary Doria Russell

4.09

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into th… read more

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"How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?"

-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

"And you believe you will succeed, where God has failed me?"

-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

"The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it."

-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

"Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief."

-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

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2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Book 1 (Millennium: The Graphic Novels, #1.1)

By: Stieg Larsson , Denise Mina , Andrea Mutti , Leonardo Manco

3.23

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

The official graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. This is b… read more

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3. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

By: Aldo Leopold

4.30

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

4. Grendel

By: John Gardner

4.03

Format: 606 pages,

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more

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5. Lab Girl

By: Hope Jahren

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers,… read more

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6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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7. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more

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8. Fifteen Dogs

By: André Alexis

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

" I wonder", said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence." " I'll wager a… read more

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9. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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10. Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us

By: Alexandra Morton

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and … read more

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11. Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them

By: None

4.06

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

All the buzz about North America's bees Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of … read more

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12. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

By: Michael Pollan

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Memory is the enemy of wonder"

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

"For great many species today, “fitness"

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

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13. The Wolf

By: Nate Blakeslee

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

ASIN moved from this edition The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrat… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"By the 1920’s, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprece…"

-Nate Blakeslee, The Wolf

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14. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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15. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

By: Steve Brusatte

4.20

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

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16. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

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17. 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

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • 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

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18. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

By: Lulu Miller

4.16

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"There is grandeur in this view,"

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"In every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"We are specks, flickering in and out of existence, with no significance to the cosmos."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

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19. Waypoints: My Scottish Journey

By: Sam Heughan

4.29

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Journey deep into the Scottish Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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20. I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself

By: Toni Lodge

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. The Last Animal

By: Ramona Ausubel

3.47

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in … read more

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22. How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

By: Tom Mustill

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who wen… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard…"

-Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

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23. The Other Side of Disappearing

By: Kate Clayborn

3.76

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of Georgie, All Along and Love Lettering, a pitch-perfect, radiantly tran… read more

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24. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

By: Katharine Hayhoe

4.31

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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25. The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers

By: Adam Nicolson

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In The Seabird's Cry, Adam Nicolson travels ocean paths, fusing traditional knowledge with astonish… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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26. When the Sky Fell on Splendor

By: Emily Henry

3.29

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Almost everyone in the small town of Splendor, Ohio, was affected when the local steel mill explode… read more

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27. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

By: Nick Pyenson

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Smithsonian's star paleontologist takes us to the ends of the earth and to the cutting edge of … read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"We, as paleontologists, are used to asking questions without having all the facts."

-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with awe, terror, and affection. We have hunted them for thousands of years a…"

-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

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28. Summer Fun

By: Jeanne Thornton

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and t… read more

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"We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that."

-Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun

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29. The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas

By: Natalie Sanders

4.05

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Britain's west coast is home to only one pod of orca, and they're heading rapidly towards extinctio… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Wenn Haie leuchten: Eine Reise in die geheimnisvolle Welt der Meeresforschung

By: Julia Schnetzer

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Aktuellste Forschung und ein Gespür für das Kuriose: Die Meeresbiologin Julia Schnetzer über Meeres… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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31. We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility

By: Michael J. Moore

4.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Relating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • conservation
  • environment
  • nature
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Aldo Leopold

4.30

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Michael Pollan

4.06

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Nate Blakeslee

4.39

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Steve Brusatte

4.38

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Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Torrey Peters

4.12

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Casey Plett

4.07

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Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

3.68

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