A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay. Sara Bonnett Stein More Quotes by Sara Bonnett Stein More Quotes From Sara Bonnett Stein It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals. Sara Bonnett Stein community responsibility friendship I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. Sara Bonnett Stein garden flower thinking A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them. Sara Bonnett Stein weed roots feet