" 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 , Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature