From AwayToGarden.com and RobinhoodRadio.com, this is AwayToGarden with Margaret Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

Our human-centric way of looking at things in the garden and tasting, hearing, seeing,

and touching things is just one person's opinion and hardly represents the consensus of all

the living creatures whose home it is.

Today's guest is naturalist Nancy Lawson, whom you may know as the humane gardener, the

title of her previous book.

She has a new one out called Wildscape that asks us to adjust our sense to take into account

everyone out there, whose world it is, everyone else else whose world it is and was before we intervened.

More in a moment but first these messages.

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Nancy Lawson is the humane gardener, a naturalist and habitat consultant based in Maryland who promotes animal-friendly plant strategies

and challenges us to sharpen our awareness that we're not alone out there. Her new book is

Wildscape and I'm so glad she's here today to talk about it. Hi, and so good to talk to you. Thank you.

Hi Margaret, I'm delighted to be here. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so do a book giveaway with the transcript of this show over on AwayToGarden.com.

And so I just really just wanted to say, why did you want to write this book?

I love the subhead on the title as Wildscape and Big Letters and it says,

Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies and other sensory wonders of nature.

So why do you want to do this one after the Humane Gardener?

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