Source: MOUNTAIN XPRESS, 8/23/18


Bob Gale, ecologist and public lands director at MountainTrue, an environmental and conservation nonprofit in Asheville, recalls encountering this quote as a botany student in the 1970s. While it’s poetic symbolism stands, it’s relevance wanes when applied to the problem of non-native invasive plants, many of which continue to be introduced into new areas of Western North Carolina by gardeners and landscapers.

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