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Life As a Weed: Meditations on Plants Unbidden
By Ken Burrows
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Description
Life as a Weed is a collection of fifty-two essays about weeds, sharing the authors' curiosity about nature's underclass. Fascinating as they are, alien intruders, unlikely beauties, cures, poisons, aphrodisiacs, the stuff of heroic tale, legend, magic and spell, the plants are viewed obliquely through anecdote or meditation as the writer recalls garden club encounters, backyard failures, and occasional epiphanies. Readers are encouraged to "enjoy and value their fellows in nature (neighbors as well as plants) instead of trying to kill them." Each short essay is accompanied by Ed Perzel's delightful sketch and and invitation for readers to make a note or sketch of their owbn
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
236
Publication Date:
2004-01-01
Publisher:
Whitney Press
Languages:
Published:
English
ISBN10:
1932155465
Weight:
363 g
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