“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

“Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds: grow.”

“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”

“A country is signally blessed above others, which can grow Indian corn.”

“Who fain would sow the fallow field,
And see the growing corn,
Must first remove the useless weeds,
The bramble and the thorn.”
Qui serere ingenuum uolet agrum liberat arua prius fruticibus, falce rubos filicemque resecat, ut noua fruge grauis Ceres eat.

“Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.”

“An ill weed grows apace.”

“Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection”

“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”

“Secrecy is the potting soil in which all this conspiracy shit grows. Trust me. The roaches don’t like it when you start shining a light on them.”