If it is the way of humans to take things personally, it is also the way of weeds to insinuate an intimacy with humans by being so often in their hands. I am more intimate by far with the corded twining of honeysuckle stems, the flat, soft simplicity of their leaves, than I am with the clematis that has grown for years beside the kitchen door."
Sara B. Stein, My Weeds: A Gardener’s Botany









