Books Actually About Nature
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating — 84,756 ratings 5. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,483 ratings 6. 
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Return to Nature: The New Science of How Natural Landscapes Restore Us
by:
Emma Loewe
3.79 avg rating — 217 ratings 7. 
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by:
Richard Louv
3.93 avg rating — 14,733 ratings 9. 
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Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants 4.45 avg rating — 3,466 ratings
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Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
by:
Farley Mowat
4.21 avg rating — 25,555 ratings 
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How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You’ve Never Noticed
by:
Tristan Gooley
3.50 avg rating — 1,649 ratings 17. 
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon 4.18 avg rating — 4,952 ratings
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How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
by:
Kathleen Meyer
3.66 avg rating — 1,039 ratings 17. 
The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South
by:
John Lane
3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings 17. 
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by:
Merlin Sheldrake
4.33 avg rating — 47,215 ratings 
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The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
by:
Yossi Yovel
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings 23. 
Up Shit Creek: A Collection of Horrifyingly True Wilderness Toilet Misadventures
by:
Joe Lindsay
3.71 avg rating — 83 ratings 23. 
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by:
John Vaillant
4.12 avg rating — 12,028 ratings 
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
by:
Janisse Ray
4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings 
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Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard 4.37 avg rating — 6,368 ratings
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Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer
by:
John Moran
4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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Rocky Mountain Trees: A Handbook of the Native Species With Plates and Distribution Maps 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
by:
Suzanne Simard
4.21 avg rating — 15,841 ratings 
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A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
by:
Erin Sharkey
4.27 avg rating — 268 ratings 38. 
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The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
by:
William D. Bryan
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 43. 
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
by:
Thor Hanson
4.07 avg rating — 1,640 ratings 43. 
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An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding
by:
Eoghan Daltun
4.24 avg rating — 419 ratings 48. 
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments 4.05 avg rating — 23,279 ratings
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Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
by:
John Felstiner
3.48 avg rating — 46 ratings 50. 
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds 4.15 avg rating — 6,298 ratings
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A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
by:
Jonathan Meiburg
4.17 avg rating — 2,740 ratings 60. 
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Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish
by:
Zeb Hogan
3.93 avg rating — 43 ratings 63. 
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
by:
Jim Sterba
3.71 avg rating — 375 ratings 63. 
Swamp Songs: Journeys Through Marsh, Meadow and Other Wetlands
by:
Tom Blass
3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings 65. 
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
by:
James Bridle
4.17 avg rating — 1,976 ratings 
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by:
Ed Yong
4.47 avg rating — 32,507 ratings 67. 
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
by:
Patrik Svensson
3.92 avg rating — 21,232 ratings 70. 
Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education
by:
David Sobel
4.26 avg rating — 264 ratings 71. 
Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You 4.26 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature
by:
Jennifer Ward
3.69 avg rating — 950 ratings 
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The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts
by:
David Rothenberg
4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings 77. 
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
by:
Jane Goodall
4.16 avg rating — 1,385 ratings 79. 
The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine
by:
Barry Lopez
4.11 avg rating — 121 ratings 80. 
Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country
by:
Kelby Ouchley
4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction
by:
Mike Ashley
3.87 avg rating — 119 ratings 84. 
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Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland
by:
Kathleen Jamie
4.02 avg rating — 243 ratings 86. 
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Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast
by:
Paul S. Sutter
3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings 88. 
The Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700
by:
Rebecca Bushnell
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 89. 
The Wilder Heart of Florida: More Writers Inspired by Florida Nature 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by:
Camille T. Dungy
4.61 avg rating — 473 ratings 91. 
Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South
by:
William Bartram
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
93. 
Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos: A Library of America Boxed Set
by:
Loren Eiseley
4.72 avg rating — 29 ratings 
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
by:
Julie Dunlap
3.63 avg rating — 185 ratings 97. 
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