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• Soil

  Dungy, Camille T

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  In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Entangled Life

  Sheldrake, Merlin

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  Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

  Egan, Dan

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  The Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Light Eaters

  How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  Schlanger, Zoë,

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  A book exploring the emerging science on plant intelligence, uncovering plants' complex and unimaginable capabilities and calling into question what we consider to be conscious agents in the natural world

• Sing Like Fish

  Kingdon, Amorina

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  Our seas echo with human-made sound, but we are just learning of the repercussions of anthropogenic noise on the marine world's delicate acoustic ecosystems-masking mating calls, chasing animals from their food, and even wounding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great River

  Upholt, Boyce

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  In this landmark work of natural history, a journalist tells the epic story of the Mississippi River and the centuries of efforts to control it, which have damaged its once-vibrant ecosystems, carrying readers along the river's last…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Braiding Sweetgrass

  Kimmerer, Robin

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  As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Deer and the Antelope Play

  Offerman, Nick

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  With wit, heartwarming stories and a keen insight into new and exciting ways to see both the past and the future of the country, the actor, writer and woodworker takes a literary journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Meteorites

  Gordon, Helen

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  From your window you can see the stars and distant planets: light years away, it's easy to think that our existences and theirs will never intersect. Yet meteorites - mysterious, irregular rocks of sometimes immense value - connect us with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Planet of the Ants

  Fritsche, Olaf

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  The Wall Street Journal Shortlisted for the 2022 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize This sweeping portrait of the world's uncontested six-legged conquerors will open your eyes to the secret societies thriving right beneath your…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Underland

  Macfarlane, Robert

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  From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future. Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Soul of An Octopus

  Montgomery, Sy

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  Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect, " about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death, went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi

  Seifert, Keith

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  Even though we can't always see them, fungi exist all around us. From forests and farms to food and medicine—and even our homes and bodies—fungal connections shape how we live. In this illuminating book, readers will "discover how these…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Genius of Birds

  Ackerman, Jennifer

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  Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nature Fix

  Williams, Florence

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  An investigation into the restorative benefits of nature draws on cutting-edge research and the author's explorations with international nature therapy programs to examine the relationship between nature and human cognition, mood, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• World of Wonders

  Nezhukumatathil, Aimee

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  From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us

• The Songs of Trees

  Haskell, David George

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  WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING David Haskell has won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, he brings his powers of observation to the biological…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What An Owl Knows

  Ackerman, Jennifer

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific exploration of owls, the most elusive group of birds, and an investigation into why these remarkable and yet mysterious animals…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Desert Solitaire

  Abbey, Edward

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  First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey's most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Golden Spruce

  Vaillant, John

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  When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked…Read moreRead more of this annotation