Shannon
Hillsborough
Second Nature (1991) — 2 years ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
I found this collection of essays on gardening to be a bit more long-winded and dense than Pollan’s more well known later books. While his ideas on the metaphor of the American lawn and the debate over whether we have the right to shape nature are very interesting, Pollan does show a tendency to over-analyze. After all, a garden should be the gardener’s private world, to shape and form as she likes. It really is that simple.
