“I have a garden of my own,/ But so with roses overgrown,/ And lilies, that you would it guess/ To be a little wilderness.”
Andrew Marvell
“Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker; you don't yet know where the stems of the flowers are.”
Walter Murch
“First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.”
Lincoln Steffens
“Just don't leave them here and let them get all overgrown and let it be forgotten about it. It's not right.”
Paul Vincuilla
“There still remains a big area that has a lot of overgrown vegetation, the fence is in disrepair and there are barrels and scrap metal and wood on the property.”
Justin Murphy
“In our neighborhood they got way overgrown and nobody was taking care of them. It was a major battle.”
Frank Roder
“For years, Central Park really wasn't a park. It was called the Public Square and was more of an overgrown vacant lot.”
Frank Boyett
