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Second Nature
1991 reprint cover
Author Michael Pollan
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAtlantic Monthly Press
Publication date
1991
Media typePrint
Pages258
ISBN 9780871134431
OCLC 30147105
Followed by A Place of My Own 

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education was Michael Pollan's first book. It is a collection of essays about gardening arranged by seasons.

It is listed in the American Horticultural Society's 75 Great American Garden Books. [1]

In the book, Pollan describes the relationship between the wild and gardens, nature vs. cultivation, and nature vs. chemicals. He discusses the difficulty of raising roses, which have become so specialized that they can no longer survive in the wild.

References

  1. ^ AHS 75 Great Books. American Horticultural Society, 1997. Archived January 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

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