ecology-based books—practical, cultural, and whimsical
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last updated July, 2026
The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues
Tristan Gooley
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Of Naked Ladies and Forget-Me-Nots: The stories behind the common names of some of our favorite plants
Allan M Armitage
Plant Names Explained: Botanical Terms and Their Meaning
Julia Britton
Discovering Wild Plant Names (Shire Discovering)
John E. Stevens
Potted History: The Story of Plants in the Home
Catherine Horwood
The Flower Garden: A Guide to Growing Cut Flowers on Your Windowsill
Jennita Jansen
The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11)
Louise Penny
Cut Flower Growing: A Beginner's Guide to Planning, Planting and Styling Cut Flowers, No Matter Your Space
Marianne Slater
Mindfulness in the Garden: Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt
Zachiah Murray
Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
Enrique Salmón
Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver
Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
Helen Humphreys
Nature Devotional: Eco-spiritual reflections, meditations and affirmations
Rebecca Reitz
Plants for the People: A Modern Guide to Plant Medicine
Erin Lovell Verinder
How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America
John Dvorak
The Botanical Bible: Plants, Flowers, Art, Recipes & Other Home Uses
Sonya Patel Ellis
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
James Bridle
Abundance
Ezra Klein
How to Know the Wild Flowers
William Starr Dana
A Year's Turning
Michael Viney
Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America
Peter Wohlleben
Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style
Christin Geall
Modern Nature
Derek Jarman
Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life
Scott Chaskey
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored
Royal Horticultural Society
The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
Adam Nicolson
Erosion: Essays of Undoing
Terry Tempest Williams
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