Books like Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. Tallamy

Susan Orlean tells the true story of John Laroche, a Florida plant dealer who stole rare orchids from a South Florida swamp and sparked a legal and environmental controversy in 1994.

In this book, a leading plant scientist offers a new understanding of the botanical world and a passionate argument for intelligent plant life. Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? For centuries, philosophers and scientists have argued that plants are unthinking and inert, yet discoveries over the past fifty years have challenged this idea, shedding new light on the complex interior lives of plants. In Brilliant Green, leading scientist Stefano Mancuso presents a new paradigm in our understanding of the vegetal world. He argues that plants process information, sleep, remember, and signal to one another-showing that, far from passive machines, plants are intelligent and aware. Part botany lesson, part manifesto, Brilliant Green is an engaging and passionate examination of the inner workings of the plant kingdom.

Explore the hidden lives of seeds—from the toast that starts our day to the cotton that clothes us—revealing their profound impact on diets, economies, and history.

Douglas W. Tallamy shows how homeowners can create conservation corridors in their yards by planting native species, offering practical, effective steps for a grassroots approach to protecting wildlife and ecosystems.

A vibrant guide for young creators featuring over sixty nature‑based craft projects that use materials found almost everywhere, perfect for children in grades 3‑4.

Highlights five pivotal moments where plants or plant products—ranging from grains and spices to coal—altered civilization’s trajectory.

Describes and discusses the geographic distribution, means of reproduction and survival, and the uses of all the varieties of leafless plants such as algae, fungi, mosses, and slime-molds.

Last Flower ~ Con Sellers IN THE BLOOD-RED SUNSET OF A MIGHTY INDIAN NATION, A GREAT WOMAN, A GREAT LOVE ENDURED... Torn from her wedding couch by lusting Apaches, Tosanna, Last Flower of the Comanches, was sold to an English mercenary and paraded at the Queen's court as an exotic savage from the New World. Her stormy midnight beauty had enslaved noblemen and braves, she had known passion and pleasure, but never the total surrender she knew with Walker Fairborn, the blond American, the man they called Sun hair. Wary scout, swift fearless killer - but gentle as no man she had ever known - he fled the war-ravaged South only to face a greater test of courage in England. There, a raven-eyed Indian beauty ignited a passion that war could not tame, time could not still. Separately they returned to their ravaged homeland, a white hunter and a Comanche princess, to worlds they no longer knew. But even as Tosanna risked her life to save her people from the brutal plunder of the white Cavalry, even as she stood proud and strong in the twilight of the doomed Comanche nation, still she longed for the pale blond beauty of Sun Hair. For Tosanna was a woman who took as fiercely as she gave, whom the gods - and history - would remember as the... Last Flower

Open The Urban Tree Book and discover the joys of forest trekking--right in your city or town. This first-of-a-kind field guide introduces readers to the trees on their block, in neighborhood parks, and throughout the urban landscape. Unlike traditional tree guides with dizzying numbers of woodland species, The Urban Tree Book explores nature in the city, describing some 200 tree types likely to be found on North America's streets and surrounding spaces, including suburban settings.With telling descriptions and precise botanical detail, this unique guide not only identifies trees but brings them to life through history, lore, anecdotes, up-to-date facts, and hundreds of fascinating characteristics. More than 175 graceful illustrations capture the charm of trees in urban settings and depict leaf, flower, fruit, and bark features for identification and appreciation. The Urban Tree Book will inform even the most knowledgeable plant person and delight urbanites who simply enjoy strolling beneath the shade of welcoming trees. An engaging excursion into the "urban forest," this complete guide to city trees will both entertain and enlighten nature lovers, urban hikers, gardeners, and everyone curious about their environment. Includes a tree planting-and-care section, tree primer, and exploration guideIs backed by the expertise of the renowned Morton ArboretumIncorporates new "urban forestry" perspectivesCovers urban trees across the continentLists key organizations and institutions for tree loversSelects the best tree sites on the InternetUpdates many guides by 20 yearsFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

Explains birds that nest in city centers and how they've adapted to urban life.

Nature's Web maps the intellectual roots of the environmental movement, linking ancient philosophies, modern science, and ecology into a new philosophy of nature that seeks a sustainable, harmonious society.

By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow. Inspired by examples, you'll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape - one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. The Living Landscape is your roadmap to a richer, more satisfying garden. Describes how home gardeners can help support sustainability and biodiversity through including in their garden plants that provide food for birds and bugs and serve as a pollination source for bees, including suggested plants for every climate and region. --Publisher's description.

A novel that examines the legal and personal connections between humans and plants, probing how law shapes our relationship with the natural world.

"Whether collecting specimens along the banks of the Hudson River, lecturing before a class of rapt medical students, or breaking the fever of a young Philip Hamilton, David Hosack was an American visionary who has been too long forgotten. Alongside other towering figures of the post-Revolutionary generation, he took the reins of a nation. In unearthing the dramatic story of his life, [the author] offers a lush depiction of the man who gave a new voice to the powers and perils of nature"--Amazon.com.

The bananas we eat today aren't our parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out. That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance--once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to coffee to wheat, tastes the same every single time. Our corporate food system has nearly perfected the process of turning sunlight, water and nutrients into food. But our crops themselves remain susceptible to nature's fury. And nature always wins.

A vibrant exploration of flowers—from their biology and ecology to their cultural and economic impact—showing how they nourish, inspire, and influence human life and the planet’s pollinators.