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| Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards | 
| Author: Sara B. Stein
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 16596
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0395709407
Dewey Decimal Number: 574.5264
UPC: 046442709408
EAN: 9780395709405
ASIN: 0395709407
Publication Date: April 24, 1995
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Condition: Minor wear, possibly some marking. Satisfaction guaranteed. Inventory subject to prior sale.
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 Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards September 20, 2004
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is absolutely wonderful, it should be required reading for every lawn fanatic out there. An ecological viewpoint presented in an easy to understand and engrossing style. I would recommend this book to everyone. I am giving copies of this book as presents and loaning my copy to friends. This would be the perfect book to donate to your local or school library.
 Nice February 4, 2003
10 out of 39 found this review helpful
I thought it a good idea to give a guy's opinion and so here it is. This is a "nice" book, with nice sentiment and excellent ideas about how we should live with and not apart from nature. Actually it wouldn't be a bad idea for more men to see nature as a refuge, not a place to wreck havoc with and certainly not a killing field. However, I think few "guys" could get beyond the niceness of it all. It's just too very nice.
Nice December 7, 2002
4 out of 31 found this review helpful
I thought it a good idea to give a guy's opinion and so here it is. This is a "nice" book, with nice sentiment and excellent ideas about how we should live with and not apart from nature. Actually it wouldn't be a bad idea for more men to see nature as a refuge, not a place to wreck havoc with and certainly not a killing field. However, I think few "guys" could get beyond the niceness of it all. It's just too very nice.
 instructional on the interdependence of plants and animals August 4, 2002
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is that it is the story of one woman and her husband's journey toward unlandscaping and restoring their property. It chronicles their process of doing it but at least as much as the journey toward gathering the information, an ongoing effort. That can be the most difficult thing. It's really interesting and instructive to hear about their journey. I read this book cover to cover in a few days. I found it truly rivoting. I read a lot of native plant related books and even research about plant allies and plant communities. I had even been planning to my shady backyard with more understory woodland plantings. So of course this book was right up my alley. But what really impressed me and inspired me most about this book is her non-technical yet very instructional discussions of the interdependence of plants and animals on each other throughout the year for food habitat and precreation. This illustrates well how utterly crucial it is to have plant communities be as full abd widespread as possible. I plan to buy this book for several clients and friends.
Eye-Opening Garden Writing January 31, 2002
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
We are so disconnected from the natural world, we can't see the damage we are (maybe) permanently doing to our own backyards and other common areas. Sara Stein examines our disconnected state, and proposes some ways to reconnect and salvage our place in the natural world. This book is a breath of hope- read it and restore your own Eden!
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