"[A]t a time of great environmental change and uncertainty, weeds may soon be all we’ve got left."

"Tolerate them, he advises; celebrate their exuberant resilience, adjust your perspective. Fight them, and we may end up with nothing."

From a review of "Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants" by Richard Mabey.

As long as we're talking about books about weeds, there's also "Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities."