The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so widely despised, so unloved, killed with every chance we get, they are so pervasive, so seemingly invincible.

You can't keep up with the weeds.

Every garden may have some weeds