Mabey

Mr. Mabey, who vaulted to the first rank of British nature writers in 1972 with the foragers' bible "Food for Free," developed his passion for the natural world in the 1960s, he says, when he was working for the Penguin publishing house in the industrial wastelands near Heathrow Airport.

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But Mr. Mabey does cite Ralph Waldo Emerson's proposal that a weed is simply a plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.

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One summer, the parish council notified Mr. Mabey that it had received an anonymous complaint about the untidy weediness.

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Mr. Mabey responded with what he admits was "a rather haughty letter."

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As Mr. Mabey notes: "The invisible chemical transactions between weeds and other plants are still barely mapped."

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Mr. Mabey waits until the final chapter to spell out the rationale behind the book: to explore our weed-prosecution compulsion and its damaging effect on our relationship with nature.

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Mabey he should worry about his smoking addiction and leave others alone to worry about their soda addiction.

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Mabey Bella runs away because she is so hungrey she attacks nessie (not kills though i dont want poor nessie to die). thank you so much for your books and write more,

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The warden and her volunteers had banished from the graveyard the regimental stripes of the lawn mower and the bleach lines of weed killers, encouraging instead a profusion of what nature writer Richard Mabey calls "the wild flowers of the English pastoral," such as primrose, lady's slipper and cowslip.

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Mr. Mabey, unlike his neighbors, does not grow grass "billiard-table turf" along the road in front of his house in Norfolk.

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