Second Nature: A Gardener's EducationMichael Pollan brilliantly promotes the garden - rather than the wild - as the most appropriate place for rethinking our relationship with nature. Second Nature contains plenty of information - there are chapters on the virtues of composting, how to plant a tree for the long haul, reading between the lines of seed catalogues, and the secrets of the green thumb - but its true focus is the philosophy of gardening, what gardening has to teach us about the troubled borders between nature and culture, our attitudes towards wild places and animals, the urgent environmental questions we face, class consciousness in the gardening world and the moral dimensions of landscape. |
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Recensione dell'utente - jennybeast - LibraryThingThere are some revolutionary ideas in this book, about how to re-imagine the interaction of humans and nature. However, it felt more like a collection of essays than a cohesive book and as a result ... Leggi recensione completa
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Recensione dell'utente - Joy_Bush - LibraryThingI love Michael Pollan so this was a fairly easy read. It just was not the type of gardening book I thought it was going to be. Most of it was philosophical and I have no use for that type of stuff ... Leggi recensione completa