Bibliograph

Second nature, a gardener's education, Michael Pollan

Type

Label

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

bibliography

Oclc number

22661097

Responsibility statement

Michael Pollan

Sub title

a gardener's education

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

Table Of Contents

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

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