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cousinvini
04/14/23 7:18:09 AM
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I enjoy these two:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52668915
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/87040


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Enderknight17
04/14/23 8:08:05 AM
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The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben.
How to Fish by Chris Yates

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SiO4
04/14/23 10:56:28 AM
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The National Audubon Society Field Guide book series is fantastic.

The Rocks and Mineral one probably changed my life.

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R1masher
04/14/23 11:07:05 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/2/AAYZyTAAEYdQ.jpg

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Enderknight17
04/14/23 11:30:48 AM
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SiO4 posted...
The National Audubon Society Field Guide book series is fantastic.

The Rocks and Mineral one probably changed my life.

Can't believe I forgot about those. Their guide to the night sky is great, too. Learned so much from it.

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Proto_Spark
04/14/23 11:52:09 AM
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SiO4 posted...
The National Audubon Society Field Guide book series is fantastic.

The Rocks and Mineral one probably changed my life.

The Rocks and Minerals one is literally so good is was one of the required books when I took a mineralogy class in University. Would 100% recommend basically any of them.

If you want old-school nature writing, basically anything by Rachel Carson is worth a read. Similarly a Sand County Almanac is another classic.

If you want to go a little tangential, I really liked The Monsanto Papers (Carey Gillam),The Uninhabitable Earth (David-Wallace Wells), Merchants of Doubt (Erik Conway and Naomi Oreskes) and This Changes Everything (Naomi Klein). The latter 3 are purely about climate change, which can sometimes produce books of sketchier quality (though those are usually the "climate change isn't real" side)

If you want to get really tangential, The Immortal Henrietta Lacks basically uses biology as a backdrop for a story about the titled woman, who basically had cells stolen from her that became HeLa cells, the "immortal" cell line that revolutionized cell biology a couple decades ago.
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