Accidental Garden (eBook)

Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between

Mabey Richard Mabey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
143 Seiten
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-80522-071-8 (ISBN)

Infos

'Part memoir, part naturescape and part gardening book ... there is also something much rarer in this book: wisdom. What a treat' The Times'Delightful ... Mabey is the doyen of UK nature writing' New Statesman'Our greatest nature writer' New ScientistWe regard gardens as our personal dominions, where we can create whatever worlds we desire. But they are also occupied by myriads of other organisms, all with their own lives to lead. The conflict between these two power bases, Richard Mabey suggests, is a microcosm of what is happening in the larger world. In this provocative book, rooted in the daily dramas of his own Norfolk garden, Mabey offers a different scenario, where nature becomes an equal partner, a 'gardener' itself. Against a background of disordered seasons he watches his 'accidental' garden reorganising itself. Ants sow cowslip seeds in the parched grass. Moorhens take to nesting in trees. A spectacular self-seeded rose springs up in the gravel. The garden becomes a place of cultural and ecological fusion, and perhaps a metaphor for the troubled planet. This is vintage Mabey, maverick, intensely observed, and written with an unquenchable sense of wonder.

Rezensionen

As in all his work, what comes across is [Mabey's] abiding passion for plants and the sustenance they give both imaginatively and spiritually

Our greatest nature writer

At once intimate, investigative, scientific and beautiful... Irresistible

Part memoir, part naturescape... there is also something much rarer in this book: wisdom. What a treat

A crusade in defence of a natural world under threat ... Mabey's powers of nature observation, and his gift for translating them into words has made [his work] both celebrated and timeless

Part memoir, part journal, part treatise ... this slim book captures it all. A thoughtful, lingering read

Both instructive and exciting, often ecstatic... Mabey is a great, pioneering nature writer

Mabey is the kind of person you wish you had with you on every country walk

Inspirational ... meditative ... an advocate for a new non-domineering understanding of the relationship between human beings and the rest of the natural world

We are lucky to have [Richard Mabey]. He has changed the way we are with plants and made a loved world lovelier still

Eloquently and succinctly written by an enlightened ecologist ... a celebration of the garden, its meaning to us as humans, our memories, our long lives, what we can leave for future generations

A discursive, philosophical memoir about everything from the human desire to shape nature to what Mabey calls the ambiguous experience of gardening in the midst of an environmental emergency

A superb stylist with profound tenderness and compassion towards the more-than-human world

Encourages us to think less of conquering the landscape and more of sharing it with the myriad creatures and organisms that treat our lawns and beds as home

An enchanting, meditative account of a garden and its lives

Masterly ... This new work by the ever-marvellous Mabey exhorts us to pay our dues to the other inhabitants of our gardens accordingly

Mabey is a national treasure

Absolutely enchanting ... With wisdom, wit, erudition and modesty, Mabey explores the edgeland between cultivation and wildness

Delightful ... Richard Mabey is the doyen of UK nature writing

These are wide-ranging debates that cover the gender-fluid nature of plants, decolonisation, migration, native/nonnative, reparations for nature through the lens of the wood, the lawn, the pond and the flowerbed. I felt like I'd spent a great afternoon, lying in the dappled shade of a garden tree, listening to Mabey muse on a life with plants.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2024
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Islands of Abandonment Cal Flynn • Nature writing • Rewilding • Robert Macfarlane • Ronald Blythe • The Lost Rainforests of Britain Guy Shrubsole • The Man Who Planted Trees Jean Giono • Wilding and The Book of Wilding Isabella Tree
• ISBN-10: 1-80522-071-3 / 1805220713
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80522-071-8 / 9781805220718