"A full-blown garden full of vegetables, herbs, flowers, trees, and shrubs will inevitably have weeds struggling to grow or even flourishing. A gardener with time each day to tend the garden will be able to keep the garden in good order and the weeds in check. A gardener with no time will soon see the garden overgrown with plants gone to seed, dried flowers, dead plants, trees and shrubs in need of pruning, and weed explosions reveling in space and light. And so paralleling this metaphor, a multi-tasker doing constant media publicity, networking everywhere, speaking with hundreds of people, and working hard to look forever perfect and young has to tend himself constantly to keep everything in balance and not let weeds grow—doubt, loneliness, envy, lust, anger, dangers for famous people desirous of constantly being in the public eye."
From my "The Garden: Perennial Reflections on Beginnings and Ends" Chapter 20 Mumbo Jumbo: A Slight Return
