Weed Plant Quotes

#1. A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except to be able to grow in rows

Doug Larson

#2. And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

Anonymous

#3. 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 C. Peattie

#4. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#5. No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!

Matthew McConaughey

#6. A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it's not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.

Brian Andreas

#8. Plant the seeds of your dreams and weed all the objections out.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#9. When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.

Tom Hodgkinson

#10. Prison is for rapists, thieves, and murderers. If you lock someone up for smoking a plant that makes them happy, then you're the fucking criminal.

Joe Rogan

#11. Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.

Rachel Carson

#12. A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Anger is a weed...It grows up through the soil, choking every other plant. You must stamp it out. Don't let it enter your garden. Stamp out your anger until it never comes back.

Adam Gidwitz

#14. If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

Tony Robbins

#15. You have to weed the garden before you can plant flowers, must you not?" I

Rhiannon Thomas

#16. We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

Dorothy Day

#17. Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

Steve Lacy

#18. should I respect the work of the creator, of the gardener, or should I accept the survival instinct with which nature endowed this plant, which I now call a 'weed'?

Paulo Coelho

#19. One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

John Burroughs

#20. This may not however elevate your stature during the years you have remaining; for fame's a weed, but repute is a slow-growing oak, and all we can do during our lifetimes is hop around like squirrels and plant acorns.

Neal Stephenson

#21. A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.

Euell Gibbons

#22. Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain! ... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Don't plant your days they turn into weeds

Tom Waits

#24. 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.

Edward James Salisbury

#25. Do not plant a weed and pretend surprise when it grows to strangle your garden. For, I tell you that to hate is to kill for from hatred grows death as surely as life grows from love.

Michael Grant

#26. A weed is a plant out of place.

Jim Thompson

#27. Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants.

Susun Weed

#28. Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#29. I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

E. Nesbit

#30. What was a weed, anyway. A plant nobody planted? A seed escaped from a traveler's coat, something that didn't belong? Was it something that grew better than what should have been there? Wasn't it just a word, weed, trailing its judgments. Useless, without value. Unwanted.

Janet Fitch

#31. Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it.

Beryl Markham

#32. Success is a plant that needs to be watered every day. Without water; if you fail to tend to it, it dies. And on that waterless soil, from the withered stalks of abandoned success, almost imperceptibly, the weed of failure is born ...

Mauricio Chaves Mesen

#33. A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

Sara Bonnett Stein

#34. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#35. If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.

Davies Gilbert