The Idea of a Garden

Pollan describes  how nature is always changing, and how the gardener should be ready to accept those changes. He states that "[The gardener] accepts contingency, his own and nature's...The gardener learns to play the hand he's been dealt"(606). A good gardener is one that can adapt to the changes of nature.
White describes with great detail the multiple things bamboo is used for in a tea house her son admires " He longs to touch the bamboo fence, the slim yellow pieces held fast by black twine, or the sliding paper windows, or the littlwe bowl wit water dripping slowly from a piece of bamboo, or the woven rush mats,...or the drainpipe made of a large stem of bamboo split in half" (53). The first author, Pollan explains the significance of adapting to nature. White gives an example of how adapting and using nature to the best of its ability can be beneficial.