Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.

- Richard Mabey

An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in order to so…

- Richard Mabey

Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.

- Richard Mabey

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and cultu…

- Richard Mabey

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

- Richard Mabey