The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just funeral directors; they are midwives, as well."-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
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1. Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
By: Alan Burdick
4.33
Format: 288 pages,
A brilliant, witty, and thought-provoking trip by The New Yorker's science and tech editor and Nati… read more
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2. The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
By: David George Haskell
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"Here is a book to nourish the spirit. The Songs of Treesis a powerful argument against the ways in… read more
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3. The Genius of Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
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4. Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain's Most Enigmatic Animal
By: Patrick Barkham
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Britain is the home of the badger - there are more badgers per square kilometre in this country tha… read more
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5. Restoration Agriculture
By: Mark Shepard
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Around the globe most people get their calories from annual agriculture - plants that grow fast for… read more
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6. Nature Anatomy
By: Julia Rothman
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
See the world in a new way! Acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman celebrates the diverse curiosities … read more
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7. 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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8. Botanicum
By: Katie Scott , Kathy Willis
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The 2016 offering from Big Picture Press's Welcome to the Museum series, Botanicum is a stunningly … 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. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
11. 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
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12. 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
13. 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
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"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
14. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
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"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
15. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more
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"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
16. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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17. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
18. The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World
By: Gary Ferguson
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connecti… read more
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19. Soil Science for Gardeners: Working with Nature to Build Soil Health
By: Robert Pavlis
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Build healthy soil and grow better plants Healthy soil means thriving plants. Yet untangling the… read more
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20. Fungarium
By: Katie Scott
4.32
Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition
Illustrator Katie Scott returns to the Welcome to the Museum series with exquisite, detailed images… read more
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21. The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
By: Zach St. George
3.90
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has sh… read more
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