Bibliograph

Second nature, a gardener's education, Michael Pollan

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Second nature, a gardener's education, Michael Pollan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Second nature

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

881687599

Responsibility statement

Michael Pollan

Sub title

a gardener's education

Summary

Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature. With chapter ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn and a dispatch from one man's war with a woodchuck to reflections on the sexual politics of roses, Pollan captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its glory and exasperationzOne of the distinguished gardening books of our time,y from the #1 New York Times{u2013}bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma (USA Today). Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardening After Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm, he planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau's example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic did not, of course, work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Michael Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life. The result is a funny, profound, and beautifully written book in the finest tradition of American nature writing. It inspires thoughts on the war of the roses; sex and class conflict in the garden; virtuous composting; the American lawn; seed catalogs, and the politics of planting a tree. A blend of meditation, autobiography, and social history, Second Nature, from the renowned author of The Botany of Desire, In Defense of Food, and other bestsellers, is zas delicious a meditation on one man's relationship with the Earth as any you are likely to come upony (The New York Times Book Review). zUsually when Americans have wanted to explore their relationship to nature they've gone to the wilderness, or the woods. Michael Pollan went to the garden instead... and he's returned with a quirky and pleasing book.y {u2014}Annie Dillard zA joy to read.y {u2014}Los Angeles Times

Table Of Contents

Two gardens -- Nature abhors a garden -- Why mow? -- Compost and its moral imperatives -- Into the rose garden -- Weeds are us -- Green thumb -- The harvest -- Planting a tree -- The idea of a garden -- "Made wild by pompous catalogs" -- The garden tour

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