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“A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.” (Second Nature Quotes)
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“A single unmowed lawn ruins the whole effect, announcing to the world that all is not well here in utopia.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“Among the many, many things the green thumb knows is the consolation of the compost pile, where nature, ever obliging, redeems this season’s deaths and disasters in the fresh promise of next spring.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“Gardening was a subtle process of give and take with the landscape, a search for some middle ground between culture and nature.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“Here in my garden the second law of thermodynamics is repealed. Here there is more every year, not less. Here it is ever early, never late. Here, in the ungainly form of a Sibley squash, newness comes into the world.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to look to nature to somehow cure or undo culture.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“Lawns are a form of television”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“Much of gardening is a return, an effort at recovering remembered landscapes.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“The garden is an unhappy place for the perfectionist. Too much stands beyond our control here, and the only thing we can absolutely count on is eventual catastrophe.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“The gardener learns nothing when his carrots thrive, unless that success is won against a background of prior disappointment. Outright success is dumb, disaster frequently eloquent.” (Second Nature Quotes)
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“The green thumb is equable in the face of nature’s uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“To plant trees,” Russell Page wrote in his memoir, “is to give body and life to one’s dreams of a better world.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn’t necessarily expect to witness.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“We need, and now more than ever, to learn how to use nature without damaging it.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
“Whenever history and culture seem stifling, weeds begin to look good.”
Michael Pollan
Second Nature
