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Chargement... Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (original 1991; édition 2003)par Michael Pollan (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Pollan knows how to take one concept, one aspect of life, riff on it, and leave me full of ideas, history, and concepts ( ) There 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 there was more repetition and overlap of these ideas than was really necessary -- it verged on diatribe at times. I did enjoy it -- as a gardener it tapped into my imagination in a satisfying way and I particularly liked the section on roses. I 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. The only important info I gleaned from this book personally is...... I hate typical suburban lawns Lawns/grass in general is pretty useless Hybrid flowers suck, old world antique roses over hybrids Heirloom seeds, save your own seeds, seed trade with other ppl is the way to go A long list of seed catalogs and what makes each one different in flavor and which ones align with myself and I cant wait for them to get here in 6-8 weeks! I am redesigning my whole front yard to go against the grain, be unique, and a big thumbbing to the typical american yard. My favorite Pollan book by far. Pollan implicitly advocates a genuinely holistic and humanist relationship to the environment through gardening - unlike the self-loathing anti-humanism and doomsaying normally encountered in environmentally themed books. However, at times there is some chemophobic or politically correct attitudes that distract from the core of the book. Overall, it reminds me of the gardener's version of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and that's a good thing. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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One day, Harper's Magazine editor Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm. He planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau's example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic, of course, did not work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life. The result is a funny, profound, and beautifully written book which has become a classic of American nature writing. It inspires thoughts on the war of the roses; sex and class conflict in the garden; virtuous composting; the American lawn; seed catalogs, and the politics of planting a tree. A blend of meditation, autobiography, and social history, Second Nature is ultimately a modern Walden.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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