Summary
In the mid-1980s, Michael Pollan began gardening on the grounds of the old dairy farm he bought in Connecticut, a process that led to a series of musings on the troubled boundary between nature and contemporary life.
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"...a quirky and pleasing book...the debut of a fresh and provocative voice in American writing." -- Annie Dillard
"I know no book on gardening that is quite as illuminating and fascinating as this one." -- Allen Lacy
-- New York Times Book Review
"As a nongardener, I never expected to stay up late and laugh out loud at a book like this. But I've been permanently Pollan-ated." -- Christopher Buckley
-- Vanity Fair
"When he says that a garden is a place for being in, rather than looking at, you know that here is someone who is concerned with more than picture-book aspirations. Those who want their gardens to have associations, to mean something and who are endlessly intrigued...by how gardens can be down to earth and sublime at one and the same moment, will respond to Pollan." -- Mary Keen
-- Spectator
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published date: 1995
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Publisher's Notes
More than eight years ago, Harper's editor Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm. He planted a garden and adopted Thoreau's viewpoint: Do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks or the weeds. Here is his timely meditation and social history on man's relationship with nature and the environment.
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