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Featuring the garden ruminations of such luminaries as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, this is a great little night-table book for someone who would like a little garden gossip before bed. -- Susan Banks * Marietta Daily Journal * An impressive and inherently fascinating collection of excerpts from classical and distinguished literature celebrating the inspiration, interplay of art and nature, and bounty of the garden. * Bookwatch * The book, dedicated "to the anonymous gardener," offers a collection of more than 50 pieces taken from travel journals, letters, personal essays and even seed catalogs that highlight our interest in gardening from colonial times to the present. I don't know about anyone else, but I enjoy reading about flowers, gardens, gardening, etc. It relaxes me and fills my head with pleasant thoughts. -- Judy Morgan * Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel, Lufkin News * Offers a broad perspective of the trials and the joys of gardening. Landscape architects such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Andrew Jackson Downing and Beatrix Farrand share the pages of this book with Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Roger Swain, J.I. Rodale, George Washington, and about 50 others sharing their thoughts on the green world. -- Paul Rogers * Worcester Telegram and Gazette * Gardeners will find American garden history served up in thick, delicious slices. This collection allows us to see how we came to garden as we do. * American Gardener * In American Garden Writing: An Anthology, edited by Bonnie Marranca, gardeners will find American garden history served up in thick, delicious slices. From George Washington to J.I. Rodale, this collection allows us to see how we came to garden as we do.
American Garden Writing features the letters, travel journals, essays, natural histoires, and seed catalogues of over 50 authors, including Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Olmsted (who designed Central Park), Henry David Thoreau, and Edith Wharton. With topics ranging from the decorative gardens of yesteryear to the ecological concerns of today, these pieces evoke the pastoral and social environments of their time. This expanded edition contains new pieces from diane Ackerman, Joan Dye Gussow, Jamaica Kincaid, Janet Marinelli, Gary Paul Nabhan, Michael Polan, Sara B. Stein, Peg Streep, Alice Waters, and William Woys Weaver.
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