yarrr, ye scurvy boy-king, halt ye whinin'

"Every farmer knows the hunger of the wilderness, that hunger that no modern farm machinery, no improved agricultural methods, can ever quite destroy. No matter how well prepared the soil, how well kept the fences, how carefully painted the buildings, let the owner neglect for a while his prized and valued acres and they will revert again to the wild and be swallowed up by the jungle of the wasteland. The bias of nature is toward the wilderness, never toward the fruitful field."

from The Root of the Righteous by A. W. Tozer