nature books
Outdoor world reading
Nature books are books about the natural world—wildlife, plants, ecosystems, or outdoor experiences.
The term covers field guides, natural history, and reflective writing about landscapes and seasons: She spent the afternoon browsing nature books at the bookstore.
Nature writing as a genre emphasizes observation and often philosophical reflection on humanity's relationship to the environment.
- birdsEgg-laying flying vertebrates
- bird watchingObserving wild avians recreationally
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- biophiliaLove of living things
ecosystems · endangered species · Rachel Carson · journaling · paleontology · sustainability · national parks · fossil records · field guides · evolutionary biology · mammals · John Muir · flowers · phenology · trees · old growth · wild flowers · naturalists
- Science Booksscience textbooks, Systema Naturae, Gray's Anatomy, Chaos, biology textbook
- nature educationoutdoor learning, outdoor classroom, outdoor classrooms, field trips, bird watching
- children's booksfairy tales, nursery rhymes, bedtime stories, Harry Potter, Dr. Seuss
- kids booksworkbooks, primers, readers, young readers, advanced readers
- nonfictionbiography, autobiography, biographies, history, memoir
- Biology mediawildlife film, biology textbook, Planet Earth, Blue Planet, natural history