Top 7 Richard Mabey Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”

— Richard Mabey

2. “Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.”

— Richard Mabey

3. “Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.”

— Richard Mabey

4. “The wild gatecrashes our civilised domains, and the domesticated escapes and runs riot. Weeds vividly demonstrate that natural life – and the course of evolution itself – refuse to be constrained by our cultural concepts. In doing so they make us look closely at the very idea of a divided creation.”

— Richard Mabey

5. “Ever since Genesis decreed ‘thorns and thistles’ as a long-term punishment for our misbehaviour in the Garden of Eden, weeds have seemed to transcend value judgements, to be ubiquitous and self-evident, as if, like bacteria, they were a biological, not a cultural, category.”

— Richard Mabey

6. “Weather is a kind of Rorschach test. We see in it what we need to see, or what we feel is missing from our lives.”

— Richard Mabey

7. “In New York, it’s already clear that just a few months of neglect by city maintenance teams would lead to the streets becoming a burgeoning forest of Chinese tree-of-heaven seedlings.”

— Richard Mabey

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