Deep in the Green
An Exploration of Country Pleasures
Published on 5. September 2012
300 pages
978-0-307-82840-8 (ISBN)
Description
As gardening columnist for the New York Times, Anne Raver is one of our foremost authorities on making things grow. Even non-gardeners will find this book of essays a source of profound pleasure, for Raver is a writer who transcends her subject even as she illuminates it, writing with such passion, wisdom and stylishmess that her book will enchant anyone who reads it.
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Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Pulling Up Roots
- Putting Down Roots
- Breaking the Mold
- Up with Peas
- The Poop on Crickets
- The Language of the Heart
- Mowing the Reel Way
- What Cows Know
- Going Home Again
- Forbidden Poppies
- Garden Rhythms
- Sea Turtles
- Coexisting
- Naming Things
- Little Miracles
- My Old Dog
- Growing Old
- Late Again
- Grass Roots
- Dueling Trowels
- Ancient Trees
- Bird Consciousness
- The Year of One Tomato
- She's a Cucuza
- Overkill
- Answering the Call
- The Dirt on Earthworms
- Back to Earth
- Game for a Cat
- Sometimes It's a Bad Match
- The Love of a Dog
- One Life to Live
- Digging Clams and Other Things
- My Invisible Garden
- Cantaloupe Kings
- Gandhi Gardening
- Climbing Ladders
- If Geese Could Drive
- Our Aging Farm
- Generations of Gold
- Virgil in the Chicken Yard
- The Hairy Vetch Knows
- Never Say Thank You for a Plant
- Together at the Farm
- A Plant Is Not an It
- Memory and Myth
- What Would Frank Say?
- Gardens of Steel and Sky
- Of the Land
- A Patio That Girls Built
- Defying Beetles
- Heroic Bagworms
- Beyond the Garden
- Horseshoes and Humility
- Wasteland
- I Loved You, Mr. Grey
- Pieces of the Puzzle
- Corn for the Ages
- A Test of Love
