Required Reading: Founding Gardeners
Was the American Revolution also a shot from a nascent environmental movement? If not exactly that, British author Wulf makes a convincing case that our Founding Fathers deeply cared about nature and saw a connection between plants and politics. For instance, as Gen. George Washington was preparing to defend New York against the British in the summer of 1776, he took time out to write to his estate manager at Mount Vernon about the gardens there, instructing him that only trees native to America be planted, no English varieties allowed.
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