Books like Biophilia by Edward Osborne Wilson

David Abram blends phenomenology, shamanistic practices, 创魔术, and indigenous storytelling to examine how human cognition and language are deeply rooted in the natural world.

A call to action: The Future of Life is a call to protect our natural world, including animals, insects, and plants that hold the key to our future health.

In Search of Nature offers a lively, accessible overview of Edward O. Wilson’s groundbreaking work on animal behavior, social organization and human ecology, illustrated by Laura Southworth.

"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson to describe what he believes is humanity's innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes might be a biologically based need, integral to our development as individuals and as a species. That idea has caught the imagination of diverse thinkers.The Biophilia Hypothesis brings together the views of some of the most creative scientists of our time, each attempting to amplify and refine the concept of biophilia. The variety of perspectives -- psychological, biological, cultural, symbolic, and aesthetic -- frame the theoretical issues by presenting empirical evidence that supports or refutes the hypothesis. Numerous examples illustrate the idea that biophilia and its converse, biophobia, have a genetic component: fear, and even full-blown phobias of snakes and spiders are quick to develop with very little negative reinforcement, while more threatening modern artifacts -- knives, guns, automobiles -- rarely elicit such a response people find trees that are climbable and have a broad, umbrella-like canopy more attractive than trees without these characteristics people would rather look at water, green vegetation, or flowers than built structures of glass and concrete The biophilia hypothesis, if substantiated, provides a powerful argument for the conservation of biological diversity. More important, it implies serious consequences for our well-being as society becomes further estranged from the natural world. Relentless environmental destruction could have a significant impact on our quality of life, not just materially but psychologically and even spiritually.

J.B. MacKinnon urges humanity to rediscover and rewild the lost wilderness, arguing that our modern world is mid‑generation ecological disaster and that restoring natural landscapes and species is essential for a meaningful future.

E. O. Wilson’s collected essays, biography, and key works reveal his pioneering biology, passion for biodiversity, and advocacy for conservation in the face of climate change.