The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
Autor Richard Mabeyen Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781805220725
ISBN-10: 1805220721
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1805220721
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Richard Mabey's books include the bestselling plant bible Flora Britannica, Food for Free, Turned Out Nice Again, Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants and Nature Cure. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Norfolk.
Recenzii
[The] literary grandee of natural history ... 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
Absolutely enchanting ... With wisdom, wit, erudition and modesty, Mabey explores the edgeland between cultivation and wildness
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
Part memoir, part naturescape... there is also something much rarer in this book: wisdom. What a treat
This is obviously a meditation on place, but also--crucially--on time. On how we respond, practically but also morally and emotionally, to the accelerating change around us. A classic for this moment
Inspirational ... meditative ... an advocate for a new non-domineering understanding of the relationship between human beings and the rest of the natural world
A crusade in defence of a natural world under threat ... Mabey's powers of nature observation, and his gift for translating them into words has made [his work] both celebrated and timeless
Both instructive and exciting, often ecstatic... Mabey is a great, pioneering nature writer
Engaging and erudite... a great read
A lovely companion to Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time, The Accidental Garden sees nature writer Richard Mabey on fine form ... The light touch in his writing and his gardening allows for a delight in the everyday wonder of nature
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
An enchanting, meditative account of a garden and its lives
A wonderful memoir... Every page is dotted with pearls of wisdom gleaned from his decades as a nature writer
Part memoir, part journal, part treatise ... this slim book captures it all. A thoughtful, lingering read
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
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'd spent a great afternoon, lying in the dappled shade of a garden tree, listening to Mabey muse on a life with plants.
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
In a fraught and noisy world, the quiet, observant voice is precious. The voice that says, 'Look, here is a cricket, alive and wondrous. Here is a wild rose.' There is no such voice more elegant, more to be trusted, than Richard Mabey's
Mabey is both literally and metaphorically at home in The Accidental Garden. 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.
Masterly ... This new work by the ever-marvellous Mabey exhorts us to pay our dues to the other inhabitants of our gardens accordingly
Praise for Richard Mabey: 'Visionary, witty and erudite
Mabey is a national treasure
A superb stylist with profound tenderness and compassion towards the more-than-human world
Our greatest nature writer
Mabey is the kind of person you wish you had with you on every country walk
As in all his work, what comes across is [Mabey's] abiding passion for plants and the sustenance they give both imaginatively and spiritually
We are lucky to have [Richard Mabey]. He has changed the way we are with plants and made a loved world lovelier still
Absolutely enchanting ... With wisdom, wit, erudition and modesty, Mabey explores the edgeland between cultivation and wildness
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
Part memoir, part naturescape... there is also something much rarer in this book: wisdom. What a treat
This is obviously a meditation on place, but also--crucially--on time. On how we respond, practically but also morally and emotionally, to the accelerating change around us. A classic for this moment
Inspirational ... meditative ... an advocate for a new non-domineering understanding of the relationship between human beings and the rest of the natural world
A crusade in defence of a natural world under threat ... Mabey's powers of nature observation, and his gift for translating them into words has made [his work] both celebrated and timeless
Both instructive and exciting, often ecstatic... Mabey is a great, pioneering nature writer
Engaging and erudite... a great read
A lovely companion to Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time, The Accidental Garden sees nature writer Richard Mabey on fine form ... The light touch in his writing and his gardening allows for a delight in the everyday wonder of nature
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
An enchanting, meditative account of a garden and its lives
A wonderful memoir... Every page is dotted with pearls of wisdom gleaned from his decades as a nature writer
Part memoir, part journal, part treatise ... this slim book captures it all. A thoughtful, lingering read
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
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'd spent a great afternoon, lying in the dappled shade of a garden tree, listening to Mabey muse on a life with plants.
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
In a fraught and noisy world, the quiet, observant voice is precious. The voice that says, 'Look, here is a cricket, alive and wondrous. Here is a wild rose.' There is no such voice more elegant, more to be trusted, than Richard Mabey's
Mabey is both literally and metaphorically at home in The Accidental Garden. 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.
Masterly ... This new work by the ever-marvellous Mabey exhorts us to pay our dues to the other inhabitants of our gardens accordingly
Praise for Richard Mabey: 'Visionary, witty and erudite
Mabey is a national treasure
A superb stylist with profound tenderness and compassion towards the more-than-human world
Our greatest nature writer
Mabey is the kind of person you wish you had with you on every country walk
As in all his work, what comes across is [Mabey's] abiding passion for plants and the sustenance they give both imaginatively and spiritually
We are lucky to have [Richard Mabey]. He has changed the way we are with plants and made a loved world lovelier still