Plants (Non-Fiction)

Updated March 17, 2025
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Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
Simard, S. (Suzanne)
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery "Finding the Mother Tree...
The ghost forest : racists, radicals, and real estate in the California redwoods
King, Greg (Journalist)
Paper Book
The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down. Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit California's...
The power of trees : how ancient forests can save us if we let them
Wohlleben, Peter
Paper Book
"Another love letter from Wohlleben to the green world... makes the case for how we should allow forests throughout the world to regrow and in the process help heal not only the climate but us, as well."--Lydia Millet, Oprah Daily An illuminating manifesto on...
Eating to extinction : the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them
Saladino, Dan
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice What Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might associate with a word like "foodie," but a form of reverence . . ....
Fen, bog & swamp a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis
Proulx, Annie
Paper Book
From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx--whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth--comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their ecological role, and what their systematic destruction means for the planet. A lifelong...
Brave the wild river the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon
Sevigny, Melissa L. 1986-
Paper Book
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial...

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