May 1987 Issue [Article] Cultivating virtue. Compost and its moral imperatives Adjust Share by Michael Pollan , This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Compost Environmental ethics Gardening Horticultural literature Humus Philosophy of nature United States More from Michael Pollan Flowers of Evil Last season was a strange one in my garden, notable not only for the unseasonably cool and wet weather — the talk of gardeners all over New England — but… What sweetness was Opium, Made Easy One gardener’s encounter with the war on drugs Adjust Share