
Second Nature
A Gardener's Education
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Narrated by:
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Michael Pollan
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By:
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Michael Pollan
In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere.
Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its glory and exasperation. With chapters ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn, a dispatch from one man's war with a woodchuck, to an essay about the sexual politics of roses, Pollan has created a passionate and eloquent argument for reconceiving our relationship with nature.
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another great book by Micheal Pollan
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I was especially impressed by the depth of knowledge. His insight into the extremist views of those who think they understand nature are spot-on. If gardening truly brings such insight I should have started long ago!
After finishing this book I immediately began recommending it to friends and family.
Who knew gardening could bring such insight!
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Someone I wish I had for a neighbor to converse with. :)
Second Nature
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Funny, witty, informative: The perfect garden book
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He writes with great ease and I feel like he is speaking right to me. He does his homework and he puts deep thought into the interconnectedness of everything with everything else in time and space. In a world that seems to value intellectual growth less and less, Michael Pollan makes it virtuous again. How else will we be better than we are if we don't explore where we have been, why we have built the conventions of our societies in the way we have, and why we should re-think them to fit our lives and times?
Michael Pollan makes me feel smarter.
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Looking forward to a second read!!!
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I'm debating whether I get a physical copy of this book, so I can make notes underline wonderful parts and make it as a reference for me in the future. It's certainly a book that you can't just use up in audio form.
Great book
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Good but not exactly what I was expecting.
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Kept my interest through most of the book. Pollan is a GREAT storyteller. And intertwines gardening information, his experiences, into it. I liked his childhood stories the most, about his family, and semi-juvenile delinquent buddy. Lots of interesting characters in Pollan's childhood.Interesting and Entertaining
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....and what it gives back to use in return. I think I will listen to another of his booksgreat new look at why we garden
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