The Accidental Garden
Richard Mabey
Ratgeber / Natur
Beschreibung
A WATERSTONES BEST NATURE WRITING BOOK OF 2024 PICK
A BBC WILDLIFE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
'Delightful ... Mabey is the doyen of UK nature writing' New Statesman
'Both instructive and exciting, often ecstatic... Mabey is a great, pioneering nature writer' Irish Times
'Our greatest nature writer' New Scientist
We 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.
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.
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Absolutely enchanting ... With wisdom, wit, erudition and modesty, Mabey explores the edgeland between cultivation and wildness
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Masterly ... This new work by the ever-marvellous Mabey exhorts us to pay our dues to the other inhabitants of our gardens accordingly
Part memoir, part journal, part treatise ... this slim book captures it all. A thoughtful, lingering read
A lovely companion to Olivia Laing'
Delightful ... Richard Mabey is the doyen of UK nature writing
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
Both instructive and exciting, often ecstatic... Mabey is a great, pioneering nature writer
Mabey is both literally and metaphorically at home in <i>The Accidental Garden</i>. It is his own niche that provides space and creative sustenance to range widely over many of the concerns that have captivated him over the years and, most importantly, it offers the space for him to reflect on how we can be good neighbours with the other organisms with which we share our planet.
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'
Mabey is the kind of person you wish you had with you on every country walk
At once intimate, investigative, scientific and beautiful... Irresistible
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
As in all his work, what comes across is [Mabey'
A crusade in defence of a natural world under threat ... Mabey'
Engaging and erudite... a great read
Our greatest nature writer
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
An enchanting, meditative account of a garden and its lives
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
A superb stylist with profound tenderness and compassion towards the more-than-human world
Mabey is a national treasure
Part memoir, part naturescape... there is also something much rarer in this book: wisdom. What a treat
A wonderful memoir... Every page is dotted with pearls of wisdom gleaned from his decades as a nature writer
This is Classic Mabey: witty and wise, mixing profound concern with the environment with delight at the way in which nature never fails to surprise us
<b>[The] literary grandee of natural history .</b>.. here, we find the great man on home territory mingling observations on the shifting boundaries between garden and countryside with reminiscences of younger days and changing attitudes
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