Stella’s Reviews > Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance > Status Update

I love the author’s potty mouth. How he can both express love for our urban areas and call them “shitholes” at the same time…the abandoned concrete dumps where only invasive weeds seem to survive.

Gritty. Sort of a working class version of a Doug Tallamy book…still same core message of native plants good, invasive plants bad, but with more attitude.

The author loves plants but is not fond of humans as a group. “As a species, we’re behaving like a twenty-two-year-old cocaine addict that just found a duffel bag of cash on the sidewalk in Vegas, about to burn through everything in a night, trash the hotel room, and nearly kill themselves without a thought toward the future.”