Second nature : a gardener's education /
Michael Pollan.
- New York, N.Y. : Grove, c1991.
- 258 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Two gardens -- Spring -- Nature abhors a garden -- Why mow? -- Compost and its moral imperatives -- Summer -- Into the rose garden -- Weeds are us -- Green thumb -- Fall -- The harvest -- ch. 9. Planting a tree -- The idea of a garden -- Winter -- "Made wild by pompous catalogs" -- The garden tour. ch. 1. ch. 2. ch. 3. ch. 4. ch. 5. ch. 6. ch. 7. ch. 8. ch. 10. ch. 11. ch. 12.
Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature.