Second nature : a gardener's education / Michael Pollan.

Main entry:

Pollan, Michael.

Title & Author:

Second nature : a gardener's education / Michael Pollan.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, [1991]
©1991

Description:

258 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. -- Two gardens. -- Spring. Nature abhors a garden ; Why mow? ; Compost and its moral imperatives. -- Summer. Into the rose garden ; Weeds are us ; Green thumb. -- Fall. The harvest ; Planting a tree ; The idea of a garden. -- Winter. "Made wild by pompous catalog" ; The garden tour.

Summary:

One day, Harper's Magazine editor 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, of course, did not work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life. The result is a funny, profound, and beautifully written book which has become a classic 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 is ultimately a modern Walden.--From publisher description.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0871134438
9780871134431
9780802140111
0802140114

Subject:

Gardening.
Gardening Philosophy.
Jardinage.
Jardinage Philosophie.
gardening.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286233
Call No.: BIB 226447
Status: Available

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