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    Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards by Sara B. Stein, Sara Bonnett Stein (Illustrator)

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    • Pub. Date: April 1995
    • 304pp
    • Sales Rank: 105,483

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      • Pub. Date: April 1995
      • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
      • Format: Paperback, 304pp
      • Sales Rank: 105,483

      Synopsis

      Published to rave reviews in 1993, Noah's Garden shows us how our landscape style of neat yards and gardens has devastated suburban ecology, wiping out entire communities of plants and animals by stripping bare their habitats and destroying their food supplies. When Stein realized what her intensive efforts at making a traditional garden had done, she set out to "ungarden." Her book interweaves an account of her efforts with an explanation of the ecology of gardens. Noah's Garden has become the bible of the new environmental gardening movement, and the author is one of its most popular spokespersons.

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      This book shows us how our landscape style of neat yards and gardens has devastated suburban ecology, wiping out entire communities of plants and animals. When Stein realized what her intensive efforts at making a garden had done, she set out to "ungarden." Her book interweaves an account of her efforts with an explanation of the ecology of gardens. Illustrations.

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      Biography

      Sara Stein is the author of many books, including My Weeds, The Evolution Book, The Science Book, and, of course, Noah's Garden. She lives in Pound Ridge, New York.

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      Wonderful book!by Anonymous

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      January 06, 2009: I higly recommend this book to all gardeners. It is a wonderfully inspiring book. It should be in every bookstore and every library.

      A Beautifully written consciousness-raiserby Anonymous

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      November 07, 2003: I wasn't going to buy this book; after all Ms. Stein gardens (or as I later learned, 'ungardens'), in the northeast, and I live in Florida. But after hearing her keynote speech at the Florida Native Plant Society conference, I ran all the way to the book table. When I got home I read it, then I read it all the way through again. Now I read a chapter here and a chapter there. I'm delighted to see that it's still in print. It makes a powerful case for what might be called ethical landscaping: giving back, as much as possible, what we have preemptively taken from the wildlife that originally owned the land. I recommend it wholeheartedly as a beautifully written consciousness-raiser.