“Weeds, as the field guides indicate, are plants particularly well adapted to man-made places. They don’t grow in forests or prairies – in “the wild.” Weeds thrive in gardens, meadows, lawns, vacant lots, railroad sidings, hard by dumpsters and in the cracks of sidewalks. They grow where we live, in other words, and hardly anywhere else.”

“Weeds, as the field guides indicate, are plants particularly well adapted to man-made places. They don’t grow in forests or prairies – in “the wild.” Weeds thrive in gardens, meadows, lawns, vacant lots, railroad sidings, hard by dumpsters and in the cracks of sidewalks. They grow where we live, in other words, and hardly anywhere else.”

— Michael Pollan