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Second Nature
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education | Michael Pollan
9 posts | 9 read | 3 reading | 8 to read
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 and 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 reconsidering our relationship with nature.
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Amandajoy
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dariazeoli Can‘t wait for the end-of-month in the red balance 😁 4y
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hgrimes
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Hi, there is a giant cat on me and now I can‘t see. #catsoflitsy

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hgrimes

“Lawns are nature purged of sex and death. No wonder Americans like them so much.”

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hgrimes
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aggghhg the freshmen have just arrived on campus and they are EVERYWHERE and it has become difficult to find a quiet retreat on my break! Fortunately, those suckers haven‘t been here nearly long enough to have discovered the japanese garden. Coincidentally, I‘m reading about gardening.

julesG It looks very relaxing! 5y
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kgriffith
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"Had he lived to see it, my little wild garden -- this rowless plant be-in, this horticultural Haight-Ashbury -- would probably have broken his heart." ?

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Kluckleesie
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Mehso-so

I feel like this took me forever to read and by the end I was skipping stuff. I enjoyed it but it's not my favorite of his. A good read but a slow one for me.

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Kluckleesie
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Halfway through this one. Slow going

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Kluckleesie
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We are trying to turn our lawn back into something that requires less mowing.

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Kluckleesie
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Gardening with chickens, while sounding like a good idea, will inevitably deliver a similar frustration when they eat an almost ripe tomato and snap off a bean plant chasing bugs.