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" Second nature : "
Michael Pollan
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BL
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702303
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b524492
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| Main Entry
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Pollan, Michael
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| Title & Author
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Second nature : : a gardener's education /\ Michael Pollan
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| Edition Statement
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1st Grove Press ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY :: Grove Press,, c1991
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258 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0802140114 (pbk.)
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: 9780802140111 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references
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| Abstract
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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
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| Subject
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Gardening
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Gardening-- Philosophy
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| Dewey Classification
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635.9
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| LC Classification
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SB455.P58 1991b
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SB455.P58 1991b
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