“There’s no such thing as a weed,” Cas said. “That’s a cruel term made up by people who label some plants as ‘unwanted’ and some as ‘valuable,’ as if the worth of a living thing is measured by how useful it is to another living thing. As if a plant can’t gave its own intrinsic worth.”

“There’s no such thing as a weed,” Cas said. “That’s a cruel term made up by people who label some plants as ‘unwanted’ and some as ‘valuable,’ as if the worth of a living thing is measured by how useful it is to another living thing. As if a plant can’t gave its own intrinsic worth.”

— Sarah Beth Durst