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Richard Mabey

“We in effect challenge the unwanted prodigy to produce forms that slip through our control systems. It does not take much to beat us. One seed in a thousand may germinate later than the last hoeing, pass through the sieve intended to exclude it, show a mysterious immunity to weedkillers. The following year there are five . . .”

Richard Mabey, Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants
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