Wild Growth Quotes

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose

The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Here, where we are standing, they lived, and walked, and talked, and slept, and carried on their business. Here they stabled their horses and feasted, from here they rode out to fight or drove out to trade. They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders. They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever.

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.