The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays

According to David Rains Wallace, wilderness is not a quality found only in back-country wilderness areas; it is all around us, "a funamental condition of the biosphere." In these essays, covering such everyday topics as garden manure, tomato plant pests, cemeteris, puddles, native grasses, beaver psychology and freeway horticulture, as well as more majestic ones like the Okefenokee Swamp, Yellowstone backcountry, Alaskan seacoast and Japanese mountains, Wallace evokes that wilderness and reveals it to us.