A Commonplace Book

Category: weeds...

  • a weed is any plant growing where it is not wanted; the category is ever-changing and the term is a relative one
  • A weed is a treasure, and a treasure is a weed.
  • With each weed you pull up, you make room for fresh grass or flowers.
  • plants become weeds as a function of time and place
  • Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers. (M. Cooley)
  • What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered (R.W. Emerson)
  • Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. (Henry David Thoreau)

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