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10 best books like Field Notes on Science & Nature (Michael R. Canfield): Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You, Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem, For Love of Insects, The Natural History of Selborne, A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply, The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History, Life in the Undergrowth, Biophilia

Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You
AuthorClare Walker Leslie
ISBN1580174930
Experience the splendor of nature with fresh eyes! Featuring an inspiring portfolio from Clare Walker Leslie’s nature journals, this guide offers easy-to-learn techniques for capturing the world around you in pictures and words. Encouraging you to make journaling a part of your daily routine,...
Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
AuthorTom Wessels
ISBN0881504203
An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell...
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
AuthorRobin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN0870714996
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's...
The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem
AuthorJon R. Luoma
Luoma writes about what “long-term, large-scale, interdisciplinary ecological studies” can tell us about forests. He focuses on the teams that have worked at the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon. Fascinating information on how nutrients are extracted and cycle through the plants, fungi,...
For Love of Insects
AuthorThomas Eisner
ISBN0674011813
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers - and you will have entered an insect world...
The Natural History of Selborne
AuthorGilbert White
ISBN0140431128
Gilbert White's classic, best in an illustrated edition like Century (1988), can be read like the Bible, a few paragraphs a day to muse on. Or one sentence: "The language of birds is very ancient and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and understood."
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A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply
AuthorMichael Schacker
ISBN1599214326
When I picked up this book, I expected to find out some strange unknown environmental factor that was killing off the bees. What I found was that the news media sources have not been doing their homework, some universities and governments have just been pointing their fingers in the wrong directions,...
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
AuthorDavid Beerling
ISBN0192806025
Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2 C or 8 C over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking...
Life in the Undergrowth
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0691127034
An insect disguises itself as a flower or leaf. A spider lassoes its prey. A beetle persuades a bee to care for its young. This beautifully illustrated book by veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough offers a rare glimpse into the secret life of invertebrates, the world's tiniest--and most fascinating--creatures.


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Biophilia
AuthorEdward O. Wilson
ISBN0674074424
I will be so bold as to define biophilia as the innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes.
from the Prologue





E.O. Wilson, September 2009 (Wiki, Acghost)

Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology,...
Summer World: A Season of Bounty
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060742178
“Bernd Heinrich is one of our greatest living naturalists in the tradition of Gerald Durrell….A national treasure.”

—Los Angeles Times

 

Summer World is an intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in the Summer months from Bernd Heinrich,...
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
AuthorAlan Burdick
ISBN0374219737
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural?
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes from Australia hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
AuthorEric Rutkow
ISBN1439193541
In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan’s Second Nature, this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.

This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells...
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0743200322
In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and for the next fifteen years he delighted Outside's...
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
AuthorCarol Kaesuk Yoon
ISBN0393061973
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire living world and ended up founding a science: the field of scientific classification, or taxonomy. Yet, in spite of Linnaeus’s pioneering...
The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
AuthorDiane Ackerman
ISBN0679776230
Ackerman journeys in search of monarch butterflies and short-tailed albatrosses, monk seals and golden lion tamarin monkeys: the world's rarest creatures and their vanishing habitats. She delivers a rapturous celebration of other species that is also a warning to our own. Traveling from the Amazon...
A Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as a Path to Place
AuthorHannah Hinchman
ISBN0393318850
To artist-writer-naturalist Hannah Hinchman, the blank pages of a journal are a call to awaken the soul, to celebrate being alive in the world, to get to know both the wilderness of our inmost selves and the "unpredictable and potent" natural world. In the richly illustrated pages of this book, she unfolds...
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