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One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are t

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. – John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881

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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. – E.J. Salisbury, The Living Garden, 1935

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Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. – William Shakespeare

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A weed is but an unloved flower. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878

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