You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden.
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Showing posts with label Weed Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weed Quotes. Show all posts
When weeding, the best way to ...
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
~Author Unknown~
What is a weed? I have h...
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
~Donald Culross Peattie~
What is a weed? A plant whose...
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878~
We can in fact only define a w...
We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.
~E.J. Salisbury, The Living Garden, 1935~
They know, they just know wher...
They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains.
~Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994~
Roses are red, Violets are blu...
Roses are red, Violets are blue; But they don't get around Like the dandelions do
~ Slim Acres~
Plant and your spouse plants w...
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
~Author Unknown~
One is tempted to say that the...
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
~John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881~
Many gardeners will agree that...
Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.
~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973~
Man is the only critter who fe...
Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.
~Author Unknown~
He who hunts for flowers will ...
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
~Henry Ward Beecher~
I learn more about God From we...
I learn more about God From weeds than from roses; Resilience springing Through the smallest chink of hope In the absolute of concrete...
~ Phillip Pulfrey, ""Weeds,"" Perspectives, www.originals.net~
I always think of my sins when...
I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.
~Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1903~
First time I've picked weeds i...
First time I've picked weeds in almost a year. Definitely missed it. I love the smell of dirt and plant revealing their hidden nature.
~Jeb Dickerson, ~
Even the richest soil, if left...
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
~Leonardo da Vinci~
Criticizing another's garden d...
Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own.
~Author Unknown~
Crabgrass can grow on bowling ...
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.
~Dave Barry~
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