Books Actually About Nature

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year 4.16 avg rating — 12,580 ratings
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
by: Amy Tan
4.01 avg rating — 12,694 ratings
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Prodigal Summer
Prodigal Summer 4.05 avg rating — 123,757 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,767 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,488 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,283 ratings
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Return to Nature: The New Science of How Natural Landscapes Restore Us
Return to Nature: The New Science of How Natural Landscapes Restore Us 3.79 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder 3.93 avg rating — 14,733 ratings
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future 4.10 avg rating — 12,802 ratings
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Migrations
Migrations 4.12 avg rating — 91,866 ratings
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Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants 4.45 avg rating — 3,467 ratings
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World 4.33 avg rating — 10,386 ratings
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Lab Girl
Lab Girl 3.98 avg rating — 70,898 ratings
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Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves 4.21 avg rating — 25,555 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 4.05 avg rating — 112,355 ratings
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How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You’ve Never Noticed
How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You’ve Never Noticed 3.50 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon 4.18 avg rating — 4,956 ratings
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How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art 3.66 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South
The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South
by: John Lane
3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures 4.33 avg rating — 47,229 ratings
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When the Squirrel Sings
When the Squirrel Sings 4.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Up Shit Creek: A Collection of Horrifyingly True Wilderness Toilet Misadventures
Up Shit Creek: A Collection of Horrifyingly True Wilderness Toilet Misadventures 3.71 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed 4.12 avg rating — 12,029 ratings
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Around the World in 80 Trees
Around the World in 80 Trees 4.55 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
by: Dan Egan
4.34 avg rating — 11,019 ratings
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Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard 4.37 avg rating — 6,370 ratings
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A Rock Is Lively
A Rock Is Lively 4.28 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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North Woods
North Woods 4.11 avg rating — 93,011 ratings
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50 Great Trees For Georgia
50 Great Trees For Georgia it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer
Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards
Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards 4.19 avg rating — 444 ratings
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The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild
The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild 4.41 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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Rocky Mountain Trees: A Handbook of the Native Species With Plates and Distribution Maps
Rocky Mountain Trees: A Handbook of the Native Species With Plates and Distribution Maps 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Nature Girl
Nature Girl 3.67 avg rating — 26,494 ratings
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest 4.21 avg rating — 15,845 ratings
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The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden 4.16 avg rating — 1,263,082 ratings
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My First Summer in the Sierra
My First Summer in the Sierra
by: John Muir
4.06 avg rating — 7,229 ratings
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A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars 4.27 avg rating — 268 ratings
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The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation 4.05 avg rating — 6,882 ratings
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Nature Tales for Winter Nights
Nature Tales for Winter Nights 3.16 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey 4.42 avg rating — 7,460 ratings
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The Yosemite
The Yosemite
by: John Muir
4.02 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
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The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change 4.07 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There 4.31 avg rating — 35,161 ratings
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An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding 4.24 avg rating — 419 ratings
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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments 4.05 avg rating — 23,281 ratings
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Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems 3.48 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming's Ungulates
Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming's Ungulates 4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution 4.10 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
The Genius of Birds 4.04 avg rating — 13,005 ratings
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Hoagland on Nature: Essays
Hoagland on Nature: Essays 4.28 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Yellowstone Wolves in the Wild
Yellowstone Wolves in the Wild 4.35 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Bizarre Plants: Magical, Monstrous, Mythical
Bizarre Plants: Magical, Monstrous, Mythical 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds 4.15 avg rating — 6,303 ratings
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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra 3.77 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey 4.17 avg rating — 2,742 ratings
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Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
by: John Muir
4.29 avg rating — 950 ratings
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Twilight Hunters: Wolves, Coyotes and Foxes
Twilight Hunters: Wolves, Coyotes and Foxes 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish
Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish
by: Zeb Hogan
3.93 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds 3.71 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Swamp Songs: Journeys Through Marsh, Meadow and Other Wetlands
Swamp Songs: Journeys Through Marsh, Meadow and Other Wetlands
by: Tom Blass
3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence 4.17 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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Arctic Dreams
Arctic Dreams 4.23 avg rating — 8,799 ratings
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Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing
Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by: Ed Yong
4.47 avg rating — 32,515 ratings
67.
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World 3.92 avg rating — 21,239 ratings
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Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education
Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education 4.26 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You
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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The End of Nature
The End of Nature 3.94 avg rating — 3,088 ratings
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors 4.06 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
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I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature
I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature 3.70 avg rating — 951 ratings
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Sharing Nature with Children, 20th Anniversary Edition
Sharing Nature with Children, 20th Anniversary Edition 4.08 avg rating — 514 ratings
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William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts
The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts 4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink 4.16 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
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The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine
The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine 4.11 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country
Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Circling Home (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Circling Home (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
by: John Lane
3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings
82.
Large Format Nature Photography
Large Format Nature Photography really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction
Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction 3.87 avg rating — 119 ratings
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City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature
City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland 4.02 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson
Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson 4.33 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700
The Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Wilder Heart of Florida: More Writers Inspired by Florida Nature
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
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry 4.61 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South
Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Seacoast Reader (Nature Conservancy Book)
The Seacoast Reader (Nature Conservancy Book) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos: A Library of America Boxed Set
Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos: A Library of America Boxed Set 4.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Granta 102: The New Nature Writing
Granta 102: The New Nature Writing 3.80 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet 3.63 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Songs of the North
Songs of the North 4.34 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung
The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung
by: C.G. Jung
4.33 avg rating — 541 ratings
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Norton Book of Nature Writing
Norton Book of Nature Writing 4.03 avg rating — 194 ratings
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When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature
When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature 4.10 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature 4.01 avg rating — 51,514 ratings
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