![]() ![]() ![]() But in Suburban Safari, Hannah Holmes laughs at herself while celebrating the wild kingdom she explores.Holmes is a science writer who doesn't lecture. ![]() Witty environmentalists are as rare as shy politicians. Her science and travel writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Sierra, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. Hannah Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dust. Suburban Safari is a fascinating and often hilarious record of her discoveries: that many animals adore the suburban environment, including bears and cougars venturing in from the woods how plants, in their struggle for dominance, communicate with their own kind and battle other species and that ways already exist for us to grow healthier, livelier lawns. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels, crows, worms, and spiders who think of her backyard as their own. To some, it's a green oasis to others, it's eco-purgatory. The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. ![]()
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