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We collected our favorite books about native plant gardening and ecology on bookshop.org.
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  • The Darkness Manifesto

    The streetlamps, floodlights, and neon signs of cities are altering entire ecosystems, and scientists are only just beginning to understand their long-term effects. 

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  • Treekeepers

    Timely, meticulously reported, and ultimately optimistic, Treekeepers teaches us how to live with a sense of urgency in our warming world, to find beauty in the present for ourselves and our children, and to take action big or small.

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  • The Lost Spells

    Robert Macfarlane's spell-poems and Jackie Morris's watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells, words of recollection, charms of protection.

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  • After Dark

    This collection of poetry from acclaimed children's author and poet David L. Harrison explores the lives of animals who are awake after dark.

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  • A Sand County Almanac

    Essays follow the changing seasons on Leopold's farm near Baraboo. A must-read for any Wisconsin naturalist.

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  • Silent Earth

    What will happen when the bugs are all gone? Goulson explores the intrinsic connection between climate change, nature, wildlife, and the shrinking biodiversity and analyzes the harmful impact for the earth and its inhabitants.

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  • Wicked Plants

    Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.

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  • The Nature of Oaks

    Discover the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal of the mighty oak.

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