ROOTED IN NATURE

ALTHOUGH WE HUMANS tend to think of ourselves as something separate from nature—observers of nature but apart from her—that is a misconception. Nature is the tumultuous, inexorable river of life, and all of us animals and plants are swimming in it as we course from birth to death.

Gardening is at root our way of manipulating nature to our advantage. All of our fellow creatures are doing the same thing in their own ways. The blind mole digs tunnels through the topsoil to find