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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.51 — 162,216 ratings — published 2013
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.31 — 35,455 ratings — published 1949
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,347 ratings — published 2015
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.11 — 189,131 ratings — published 2018
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as naturalist)
avg rating 3.77 — 201,836 ratings — published 1854
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as naturalist)
avg rating 3.94 — 57,860 ratings — published 2015
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,497 ratings — published 1968
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.38 — 19,340 ratings — published 2003
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.07 — 438,739 ratings — published 1998
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,122 ratings — published 2021
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.32 — 28,844 ratings — published 2015
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as naturalist)
avg rating 3.74 — 79,394 ratings — published 2014
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,517,316 ratings — published 2018
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.15 — 20,696 ratings — published 2010
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,529 ratings — published 2007
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.33 — 48,211 ratings — published 2020
The Sense of Wonder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,650 ratings — published 1965
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,172,862 ratings — published 1996
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,489 ratings — published 2019
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,412 ratings — published 2019
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills (Natural Navigation)
by (shelved 7 times as naturalist)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,977 ratings — published 2014
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,139 ratings — published 2016
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as naturalist)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,209 ratings — published 2016
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.15 — 77,876 ratings — published 2014
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,246 ratings — published 2012
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,985 ratings — published 2017
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.13 — 11,147 ratings — published 2012
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,686 ratings — published 2016
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,441 ratings — published 2016
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as naturalist)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,685 ratings — published 2009
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as naturalist)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,819 ratings — published 2005
The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,842 ratings — published 1928
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,752 ratings — published 2016
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,994 ratings — published 2021
Naturalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,785 ratings — published 1994
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,664 ratings — published 2017
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.06 — 53,770 ratings — published 1962
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,059 ratings — published 2016
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,860 ratings — published 1986
Prodigal Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.05 — 125,060 ratings — published 2000
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,133 ratings — published 1994
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,635 ratings — published 2012
Wilderness Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,983 ratings — published 1980
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,647 ratings — published 1991
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,273 ratings — published 1956
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.47 — 33,329 ratings — published 2022
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as naturalist)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,643 ratings — published 2021
Of Wolves and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,786 ratings — published 1978
Landmarks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as naturalist)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,342 ratings — published 2015
A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as naturalist)
avg rating 3.83 — 45,311 ratings — published 2013
“To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.”
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“What is it that drew us to the hollow tonight? What crazy kind of species is it that leaves a warm home on a rainy night to ferry salamanders across a road? It's tempting to call it altruism, but it's not. There is nothing selfless about it. This night heaps rewards on the givers as well as the recipients. We get to be there, to witness this amazing rite, and, for an evening, to enter into relationship with other beings, as different from ourselves as we can imagine.
It has been said that people of the modern world suffer a great sadness, a "species loneliness" - estrangement from the rest of Creation. We have built this isolation with our fear, with our arrogance, and with our homes brightly lit against the night. For a moment as we walked this road, those barriers dissolved and we began to relieve the loneliness and know each other once again.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
It has been said that people of the modern world suffer a great sadness, a "species loneliness" - estrangement from the rest of Creation. We have built this isolation with our fear, with our arrogance, and with our homes brightly lit against the night. For a moment as we walked this road, those barriers dissolved and we began to relieve the loneliness and know each other once again.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
