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Cargando... People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening (edición 1997)por Robin Chotzinoff
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. eccentrics in the outdoors, road trip across America ( ) Well, from my snow-bound apartment this December, I really wanted to like this. But it just didn't work for me. For one thing, it was too superficial. There were themed sections, but each covered so much territory and so many gardeners that it all wound up being superficial. Each section, for example Roses, Estate Gardens, or Chiles, could have been a book themselves. (Not that the author titles the sections.) For another, there was always some element of spirituality. Sometimes it was paganism, or hippies, sometimes it was reverence for one's ancestors and histories, sometimes it was the Christian God. But only in the too-brief introduction did we meet a gardener with whom I, pragmatic & resourceful, could identify. I bet plenty of people would thoroughly enjoy this. I don't want to discourage you from trying it. It just wasn't my cup of tea... If there's one thing gardeners like more than gardening, it's talking with other gardeners. This is a fun and compelling book of interviews with gardeners from around the country. The author talks with growers and suppliers, all of whom are characters and all of whom are passionate about their plants. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
There was a wooden picnic table under the grape arbor, where Zelma sat all day when she wasn't actively gardening. She shelled peas, wrote letters, and mended clothes there. The older she got, she said, the less she wanted to be inside. Following Zelma's model, I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden, doing whatever the hell I want. There was a time when this would have sounded unfulfilled to me, if not downright depressing, but now I look forward to it. Robin Chotzinoff From the Introduction No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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