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…
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1. The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife
By: Nancy Lawson
4.81
Format: 539 pages,
In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Law… read more
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2. 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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"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
3. Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
By: Thomas Rainer , Claudia West
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
"As practical as it is poetic. . . . an optimistic call to action." --Chicago Tribune Over time, wi… read more
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4. Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
By: Edward O. Wilson
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to pr… read more
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5. 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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6. The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodeversity in the Home Garden
By: Douglas W. Tallamy , Rick Darke
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife. But they also want … read more
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7. 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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8. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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9. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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10. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
11. 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
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12. 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
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- birds
- conservation
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13. 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
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"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
14. 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
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15. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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16. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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17. Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World
By: Hannah Lewis
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Green, Restorative Practices /Sustainability "Hannah Lewis de… read more
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18. A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
By: Anders Gyllenhaal
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss … read more
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19. Lawns Into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape
By: Owen Wormser
4.33
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
Landscape designer Owen Wormser explains how to replace the deadscape we call lawn with low-mainten… read more
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20. Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design
By: Benjamin Vogt
4.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Connecting to nature with native plants Landscaping with native plants has encouraged gardeners fro… read more
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21. The Midwest Native Plant Primer: 225 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden
By: Alan Branhagen
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Bring Your Garden to Life—and Life to Your Garden! Do you want a garden that makes a real differe… read more
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