Second Nature: A Gardner’s Education by Michael Pollan
Requirements: Epub reader, Mobi reader. 1.6 MB
Overview: The first book from the author of the bestselling An Omnivore’s Dilemma and Botany of Desire.
This isn’t so much a how-to on gardening as a how-to on thinking about gardening. It follows the course of the natural year, from spring through winter, as [Pollan], an editor at Harper’s , chronicles his growth as a gardener in Connecticut’s rocky Housatonic Valley. Starting out as a "child of Thoreau," [Pollan] soon realized that society’s concept of culture as the enemy of nature would get him a bumper crop of weeds and well-fed woodchucks but no vegetables to eat. Far more serviceable materially and philosophically, he now finds, is the metaphor of a garden, where nature and culture form a harmonious whole. [Pollan] finds ample time for musing on how his own tasks fit in with the overall scheme of existence; thus, there are chapters titled "Compost and Its Moral Imperatives" and "The Idea of a Garden." Although serious in import, the writing is never ponderous; [Pollan]’s wit flashes throughout, and particularly in anecdotes about his youth: one memorable incident has his father mowing his initials in the front yard after being reproached by a suburban neighbor about his overgrown lawn.
Genre: General
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