Recs if you like The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet...

Books dedicated to exploring how nature is all around us no matter how we try to fight it! Whether right outside our door, within our microbiomes, or deeper into our cities, nature will find us. After all, we are a part of it, not distinct from it.

All about wildlife, nature, and restoring what we humans have lost. Attempting to include mostly inspirational books, but some may be harder hitting.

Not all insects make us to go “ooooo” and “ahhhh” with glee and fascination. From spiders to wasps, cockroaches to scorpions, they can instill the heebie jeebies on sight, but are they actually worthy of our fears or simply misunderstood?

This list compiles some reads to help us better understand these creatures which, in spite of our bruised egos at being scared of something much smaller than us, deserve our respect for their importance in myriad ecosystems. Recommendations always welcome!