The Gardener’s Ethic: Countering Alienation from Nature
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Title
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The Gardener’s Ethic: Countering Alienation from Nature
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Description
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This chapter from the student-written book “Emerging Perspectives on Religion and Environmental Values in America” explores Michael Pollan's idea of a gardener's ethic and compares it to the wilderness ethic. It assesses texts and philosophies concerning how humans interact with the environment, as well as incorporating the author's thoughts on these ethics. Below is the first paragraph of the chapter to introduce the discussion.
"In my first reading of Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education, Michael Pollan challenged the environmental ethic that I have unconsciously held for as long as I can remember. His chapter, 'Nature Abhors a Garden,' particularly sparked this evaluation. In this chapter, Pollan states that, 'gardening quickly teaches you to distrust…absolutes, to frame the question a little differently' (p. 49). To me, the broader absolute Pollan challenges is that many Americans have grown up with a ‘wilderness ethic’ but do not know exactly how they came to hold it, or the implications that come along with it."
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Date Created
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05/17/2021
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Creator(s)
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Chloe Donovan
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Audience
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All audiences/General public
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This photo and text were accessed on 06/09/2023 at https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/enr3470studentbook/chapter/the-gardeners-ethic-countering-alienation-from-nature-2/.
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Mindfulness and Simplicity
