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A weed is a plant that has mastered every
Survival skill except for
learning how to grow in rows.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where
people want something else.
In blaming nature,
people mistake the culprit.
Weeds are people's idea,
not nature's
What is a weed?
I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions.
For me,
a weed is a plant out of place.
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms,
and there is no known way to kill it that does
not involve nuclear weapons.
I always think of my sins when I weed.
They grow apace in the same way
and are harder still to get rid of.
But make no mistake the weeds will win nature bats last.
Weeds are nature's graffiti.
They know,
they just know where to grow,
how to dupe you,
and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly
respectable plants, they just know,
and therefore,
I've concluded weeds must have brains.
We can in fact only define a weed,
mutatis mutandis,
in terms of the well-known definition of dirt
as matter out of place.
What we call a weed is in fact merely
a plant growing where we do not want it.
I learn more about God
From weeds than from roses;
Resilience springing
Through the smallest *** of hope
In the absolute of concrete ....
First time I've picked weeds in almost a year.
Definitely missed it.
I love the smell of dirt and plant
revealing their hidden nature.
A man's children and his garden
both reflect the amount of weeding
done during the growing season.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don't get around
Like the dandelions do.
Weeds are flowers too,
once you get to know them.
One is tempted to say that the most human plants,
after all, are the weeds.
May all your weeds be wildflowers.