Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays

by David Rains Wallace

Essays discuss gardens, garden pests, puddles, pelicans, the Okefenokee, conservation, beavers, starlings, and ravens

Genres: Nature

203 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1986

About the author

David Rains Wallace is an author of geography and geology related books. His book, The Klamath Knot, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal in 1984.

Reviews

[Paul Norwood · Rating 4 out of 5]

A smattering of essays on natural history and conservation in the United States. Most have aged well for being about forty years old. A few are a bit dated. It seems strange today to think of a time when ravens were a little-studied species, for example, and the debate on ANILCA and North slope oil has come a long ways. The book is definitely worth a read, though, just because it's surprising how little has changed in many ways.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Nature is not only to be found in the vast spaces of the wilderness but in the cramped corners of the urban environment. In The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays, naturalist David Rains Wallace celebrates the strength and complexity of nature and glories in its discovery. Whether in his backyard garden, in a rainstorm puddle, or in the striking expanses of the Alaskan seacoast, Wallace finds the movement and interplay of nature and communicates it persuasively to his reader."
~~back cover

An intriguing collection of essays, each unique, each thought-provoking. Most spring from a different frame of mind, a different point of view, an unexplored what if? A book to be treasured, if you love reading about nature, really reading about nature.

[Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides · Rating 3 out of 5]

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