New Walks in Old Ways 



of superior wisdom over Whoever or 

 Whatever placed us all here. I should 

 say that such a definition is at best a 

 mere confession of ignorance. Nothing 

 can be really "out of place" that 

 Nature put in a given position. The 

 plants called weeds, left to themselves, 

 are as a matter of course in their 

 proper, natural places. The trouble 

 in their case is that man has not yet 

 been able to figure out for his own 

 benefit a practical use for them. In 

 pursuing his own selfish ends, any- 

 thing and everything that stands in 

 the way, as he sees the way, is a 

 miserable, useless object having no 

 license to exist. 



Weeds are those plants that thrive 

 best in given environments, without 

 artificial seeding, cultivation or other 

 human intervention. We spend all 

 kinds of money trying to save curious 

 Burbankian inventions and eradicating 

 burdocks. The latter are much har- 

 dier, only we don't know yet how to 

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