Hiro Murai

Atlanta' is Wild West-y - every corner of the city is trying to get by under its own rules. There's no single narrative. At the outer edges, the overgrown parking lots and project blocks, the city is a few yards away from apocalypse, and if you slow down, it could engulf you.

American Director

John Burnside

For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, felt like a local version of paradise.

Scottish Writer

Karel Capek

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

Czechoslovakian Writer

Mark Meadows

The IRS, now known for abusing its power by targeting groups for their political beliefs, is a prime example of an overgrown federal agency that doles out enormous bonuses to senior employees.

American Politician

Marilyn Monroe

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

American Actress

Richard M. Nixon

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

American President

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

American Musician

Sophie Hannah

No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.

British Poet

Andy Dunn

A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.

American Businessman

Ari Shaffir

I'm like an overgrown child! I don't know how to do anything!

American Comedian

Suggests lack of care or attention over a period, often for spaces meant to be maintained.

Neglect Implied

Conveys a strong visual image of a place being reclaimed by nature, sometimes evoking mystery or abandonment.

Visual Impact

Often used to set a scene in stories, indicating a location that is not frequently visited or taken care of.

Descriptive Setting

Refers to something or someone that is bigger than expected, possibly awkwardly so.

Unusual Growth

Often suggests that despite large size, youth or immaturity is present.

Implied Youth

Used metaphorically, not always implying actual physical growth, but a comparative largeness.

Not Literal Growth

Suggests a space has become wild or disorderly without intention, sometimes due to neglect.

Unintended Wildness

Implies that regular upkeep has not been performed on a space or object.

Lack of Maintenance

May suggest an area normally controlled has been left to grow wild, bringing an element of surprise.

Unexpected Wildness

 overgrown with algae and we needed them to develop a cleaning procedure and we also looked at help sea birds and marine mammals interacted and in fact you see here a sea otter that found this incredibly interesting and what's periodically work its way across this little floating water bed and we wanted to hire this guy or train him to be able

Energy from floating...

 Well, we found of course that this material became overgrown with algae, and we needed then to develop a cleaning procedure, and we also looked at how seabirds and marine mammals interacted, and in fact you see here a sea otter that found this incredibly interesting, and would periodically work its way across this little

Jonathan Trent: Energy...

 they would get muscled out by fast-growing streptococcus before they could even initiate cell division. So that's why we never find them in our throats. Perhaps the fact that the deep subsurface is so boring is actually an asset to these microbes. They never get washed out by a storm. They never get overgrown by weeds.

This deep-sea mystery is...

 In the case of the latter, gasses swelling the body and blood oozing from the mouth could make a corpse look like it had recently been alive and feeding. Vampires were describe as bloated with overgrown teeth and nails. This gave rise to many rituals intended to prevent the dead from rising,

How did Dracula become...

 but this is a city-owned person this is a city-owned park this is wilderness park wilderness park is a dense spot with lots of weeds overgrown trees and brush we walk along the edge partly to avoid the many ticks and critters that live deeper inside

The Wonders of Urban...

 Shall we see if we can find some of those parrots, those parakeets, if we can find the parakeets, we might be able to find some of their nest holes. This place is absolutely spectacular. It's very overgrown, so you have to watch where you step.

Discovering Wildlife in...

 change truly this is what a healthy ocean looks like this is what a coral reef will look like in the future if we keep on doing what we're doing now corroded overgrown with algae and bleached so this is what makes planet

How does climate change...

 This last image particularly inspired medieval artists and writers, who depicted a scaled, shaggy-furred creature with overgrown toenails. In Michael Pacher’s painting of St. Augustine and the Devil,

A brief history of the...

 narwhals are unique species of whale why unique because narwhals have a horn that can grow as long as nine feet it looks kind of like a tusks and it's actually an overgrown tube that grows through a

Narwhals PIPE National...

 completely overgrown I get tied up with the brambles in that this was all covered in brambles and then it got cold and dark and that so I laid under a big

Overgrown