What books changed the way you think about plants, soil, or ecosystems?
been reading more nonfiction lately and keep running into books about agriculture or gardening that are either written for people with acres of land or so dumbed down they say nothing useful. i grow things in containers on a small balcony, which is basically nothing in the grand scheme of agriculture, but i got pulled into a book about soil biology a while back and it sent me down a rabbit hole.
curious what books this sub has read that deal with plants, growing, ecology, that kind of territory. not looking for howto manuals. more the kind of thing that explains why something works the way it does, or the history behind how we think about plants and land. science writing that actually respects the reader.
i teach fourth grade so i spend a lot of time thinking about how information gets communicated to people who don't already know things. good nonfiction does the same thing. a lot of gardening books fail at this badly.
if you've read something that changed how you think about plants, soil, ecosystems, whatever adjacent thing, drop it. even if it's older.