<p>“[A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways….You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again."<br />-Richard Holmes, author of <em>The Age of Wonder</em></p><p>“In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due."<br />-Carl Zimmer, author of <em>Evolution</em></p><p>Richard Mabey, Great Britain's Britain's “greatest living nature writer" (<em>London Times</em>), has written a stirring and passionate defense of nature's most unloved plants. <em>Weeds</em> is a fascinating, eye-opening, and vastly entertaining appreciation of the natural world's unappreciated wildflowers that will appeal to fans of David Attenborough, Robert Sullivan's <em>Rats</em>, Amy Stewart's <em>Wicked Plants</em>, and to armchair gardeners, horticulturists, green-thumbs, all those who stop to smell the flowers.<br /></p>