Read Silent Spring

The one we are causing, species by species; Kolbert's Pulitzer.

A botanist and Potawatomi woman on what plants teach about gratitude; the slow bestseller.

A German forester on how trees talk, share and remember.

Two years in a cabin by a pond; Thoreau on living deliberately.

Darwin's one long argument for natural selection, still readable.

Kuhn's paradigm shifts; the book that gave the phrase to everyone.

Carl Sagan's thirteen-part tour of the universe from 1980; "billions and billions".

Chris McCandless walks into Alaska and dies in a bus; Krakauer reconstructs why.