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Book Review: The Humane Gardener
06.06.2023 - 16:43 / gardenerspath.com / Nan Schiller
Book Review: Cultivating Harmony with Nancy Lawson’s The Humane GardenerI recently had the pleasure of reviewing an advance copy of The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife by Nancy Lawson, available for preorder now on Amazon.com and available in wide release on April 18th.
Naturalist Nancy Lawson’s primary purpose is to help animals.
She writes a column called Humane Backyard for the Humane Society publication All Animals, and is the founder of The Humane Gardener, a comprehensive website and outreach initiative focused on gardening for animals.
A Little Book with a Big IdeaI selected Nancy’s book for review because her compassionate ideals are applicable in any garden setting – from apartments with balconies to rural farmsteads – and her writing is an inspiration.
The Humane Gardener by Nancy Lawson, available on Amazon
This unassuming 5.5-by-8-inch book with its yellow matte finish and wildlife silhouette cover is an exceptionally bound volume with sewn sections, 224 pages, and 175 photographs, many by Lawson herself.
The matte pages throughout the book give it the feel of an intimate garden journal.
Note the personification of wildlife with gender pronouns throughout, a common practice among avid naturalists that Lawson mentions at the outset, and one that demonstrates a moral responsibility to all species.
Warm and WittyReading The Humane Gardener is like taking a leisurely walk with Lawson through much-loved gardens cultivated by trial and error, meandering freely, unpenned by rigid delineations.
You can almost see the neighbors’ eyes roll as the carpet of turf grass shrinks to make way for yet another wildlife favorite to sweep across a bare patch, just in time to provide a nursery for caterpillars
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