These books have all been quoted in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows. Although some poems quoted in The Comfort of Crows are not included in this list.
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A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Alan Lightman
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
Douglas W. Tallamy
The Hurting Kind: Poems
Ada Limon
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
Sy Montgomery
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong
Holy the Firm
Annie Dillard
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
David George Haskell
Louisiana's Way Home
Kate DiCamillo
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
William Blake
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Max Porter
The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect
Wendy Williams
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans
Janisse Ray
A Country Year: Living the Questions
Sue Hubbell
A Bestiary
Lily Hoang
How to Know the Wild Flowers
William Starr Dana
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Rural Life
Verlyn Klinkenborg
One Man's Meat
E.B. White
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett
The Book of Delights: Essays
Ross Gay
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Camille T. Dungy
How to Walk (Mindfulness Essentials, #4)
Thich Nhat Hanh
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: A Bird Book for Adults
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Bomb Shelter
Mary Laura Philpott
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