The Lives of Weeds by John Cardina Spiders but so are your failures--and

but so are your failures--and there's no specific rubric or curriculum to give you direction

the children had to sleep in the barn

Part beautifully realized rural portraiture and part fairy tale

Original illustrations

*Working with a forester and a logger to create and implement a sustainable

The Lives of Weeds by John Cardina Spiders but so are your failures--andLives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany, history, ecology, and evolutionary biology to the social dimensions of humanity's ancient struggle with