Golden words and wisdom about weeds

Abstract

In our fields crop plants are treated as if they were ‘royalty’ and weeds are looked upon as behaving like ‘tramps’. However, if we continue to read Kwinkelenberg, who made this observation, we will also agree with him that, from a scientific and certainly from a psychological and sociological point of view, ‘royalty’ and ‘tramps’ are equally interesting. Weed scientists can appreciate this statement. Several of them do this as ‘a matter of fact’, according to Harlan and De Wet, because ‘their bread is buttered by the undesirability or unwantedness of weeds’. In eloquent words, many weed scientists try to convince their colleague scientists, the general public, even themselves and certainly their administrators of the unworthy nature of their victims and of the necessary attention we all should devote to undesirable plants.

Like humming bees, eager for honey, flying over flowering pastures, I have been searching all around

For golden words and wisdom about weeds, for pleasures to heart and soul, Deserving eternal life.

(Free after the introduction to Margadant’s. ‘20,000 Quotations’)