Second Nature

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LibraryThing Review

Recensione dell'utente - tolmsted - LibraryThing

Garden books and winter go together. After the garden has been covered over, – first by autumn leaves, then frost, and finally a dusting of snow – what’s left for a gardener to do until March but read ... Leggi recensione completa

Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - Laura Lemay - Goodreads

With this exception of a terrific essay toward the end about the class politics of gardening catalogs, I found this book overwritten and boring. For me it didn't have nearly the readability or approachability of his later books. Leggi recensione completa

Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - Jane - Goodreads

This is another occasion when I wish we could do half stars, because this book wasn't *quite* a five, but it was better than a four. It makes me long for spring and the opportunities to improve my ... Leggi recensione completa

Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - sla - Goodreads

p. 184 Chance and contingency, it turns out, are everywhere in nature; she has no fixed goals, no unalterable pathways into the future, no inflexible rules that she herself can't bend or break at will. She is more like us (or we are more like her) than we ever imagined. Leggi recensione completa

Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - Louise - Goodreads

Great book even if you don't garden. Leggi recensione completa

Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - Nancy - Goodreads

Anything by Pollan is, in my opinion, brilliant. Leggi recensione completa

Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - Meg - Goodreads

I love this book. I love Michael Pollan. Leggi recensione completa

Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - Rachel - Goodreads

A remarkable book. Though the book feels a little cobbled together - which makes sense given that many chapters started out as independent essays - the overall piece is truly brilliant. Pollan's ... Leggi recensione completa

Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - Barb - Goodreads

In his first book (written years before The Omnivore's Dilemma or In Defense of Food) Pollan traces his growth as a gardener, from his suburban Long Island childhood to adulthood as the owner of an ... Leggi recensione completa