Second Nature

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Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - Shane Burgel - Goodreads

Not my favorite Micheal Pollan book. I really liked the early stuff about vegetables and weeds but the book turned into a doctoral thesis on garden design near the end that was incredibly boring. I ... Leggi recensione completa

Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - La - Goodreads

this has been the most helpful gardening book, and it's not even reference material, it's more autobiographical. anyway, i love this man. 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 - Jonathan - Goodreads

I am a huge fan of Michael Pollan, but I came to this book with low expectations. It was his first book, so I figured he probably had not hit his stride yet. Also, it was about gardening, a subject I ... Leggi recensione completa

Review: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Recensione dell'utente - Fredrika - Goodreads

really glad I read this book. I feel like I will be a better gardener once I have my own garden. a truly romantic description of one man's struggle and eventual beneficial co-existence with nature. he speaks about how a garden is man's and nature's second nature... 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