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Michael Pollan (Author, Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)

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In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere.

Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its glory and exasperation. With chapters ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn, a dispatch from one man's war with a woodchuck, to an essay about the sexual politics of roses, Pollan has created a passionate and eloquent argument for reconceiving our relationship with nature.

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9 hours and 1 minute
Author

Michael Pollan
Narrator

Michael Pollan
Audible release date

March 12 2010
Language

English
Publisher

Brilliance Audio
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B072HXQH23
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	9 hours and 1 minute
Author	Michael Pollan
Narrator	Michael Pollan
Audible.ca Release Date	March 12 2010
Publisher	Brilliance Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B072HXQH23
Best Sellers Rank	#12,842 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #5 in Gardening & Horticulture Essays #16 in Gardening & Horticulture (Audible Books & Originals) #51 in Nature & Ecology Essays (Books)

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Rhodo

Very Amusing

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 27, 2021

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The text is very clever. The most amusing auardening book I have ever read. Rhodo

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Sean Veaudry

Decent Book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 23, 2020

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This is an interesting book about gardening and various pest and other issues that gardeners have to deal with. Still prefer his other books more.

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This is a very personal life adventure, and focus on a particular piece of ground retranslated into a magical garden.

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James Firth

Fascinating read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 30, 2015

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As a gardener this is a fascinating read with real insight into our relationship with nature. It comes from a very American perspective, and informs about American history and psychology towards nature. It marries this with a personal history and authors own tales of building a garden.
I've walked away from it with new ways of thinking about gardening and it's role in our lives. Great book!

Susie pr

brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 12, 2014

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This is a thought- provoking, seminal book for any serious gardener. This one is here to stay in my library.

Elise Z

great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 11, 2013

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excellent engagement with the nature society relations that every gardener is confronted with. Written in the early 90s, still relevant today.

Bernie Gourley

Gardening, and man's sculpting of nature more generally

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This isn’t simply a discussion of lessons of gardening, though it does tread that ground. However, Pollan uses that topic as a jumping off point to explore a couple of broader topics. First, what defines the American approach to lawns and gardens, which is clearly distinct from that of our Old-World ancestors / comrades? Second, what does it mean to say some approach is more or less “natural” in an ecosystem that has been shaped by the hand of man? As a neophyte balcony-container gardener, I was attracted to the book for its gardening lessons, but I found myself most provoked to thought by these other questions.

This book starts with an Introduction to set the stage and a first chapter that contrasts two approaches to lawn and garden that Pollan saw within his own family. The other eleven chapters are divided into seasonally-themed parts. These parts – Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter – touch upon the life of a gardener during each, respective, season.

The section entitled Spring discusses the challenge of getting plants to grow against the onslaught of competitors and consumers: animal, vegetative, and other. It also discusses mowing, the open approach to lawns found throughout America, and what the latter means for the former. (It has long intrigued me that many Americans who will pledge liberty or death, often aren’t so big on their neighbor’s liberty if said individual’s lawn gets to about four inches of shag.) Lastly, Pollan educates the reader about the gardener’s passion for compost.

The three Summer chapters explore what happens through the middle of the growing phase, including the need to weed. Though Pollan explores the criticisms from the “keep it natural” camp. There’s a lot of discussion of the ideas of Emerson and Thoreau, and how they represented a change from previous thought on the garden. However, the first chapter in this section is about Pollan’s experiences with growing roses, a provocative subject among gardeners, apparently.

Fall is harvest season, but the chapter in this section that I found most intriguing was one about planting a tree. This is where Pollan brings the question of what it means to be “natural” to a head. He discusses a nearby piece of protected forest that was decimated by a tornado. There was an ardent debate between those who thought that nothing should be done with the land and it should be allowed to grow back however nature saw fit and others who thought intervention was necessary. The argument can end up turning a position on its head. What if one does nothing and the land is overtaken by a non-indigenous invasive species?

The last section has an amusing chapter on garden catalogs and how companies’s style and emphasis varies in an attempt to corner a segment of the market.

I enjoyed this book, and would highly recommend it not just for gardeners, but for individuals who have an interest in the interplay between nature and humanity.

Pete the Man

Pollans Anfänge

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on March 31, 2014

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Vor einigen Jahren habe ich Michal Pollan für mich entdeckt. Ich habe über Audible Botany of Desire" gehört und war von seiner Herangehensweise fasziniert. Seitdem hab ich jedes Buch von ihm entweder gelesen oder über Audible gehört.
Soweit ich es erkennen konnte ist dies hier sein erstes Buch gewesen und er enttäuscht mich auch hier nicht!

Ich kann es nur jedem Empfehlen!

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