“Take care of your heart and your mind for they are like a garden. And nothing good thrives in a garden full… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow. — Barbara Damrosch Copy Share Image
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. — David Hume Copy Share Image
A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds And when the weeds begin to grow… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
I think being on 'Weeds,' in general, makes it hard to think of me as Nemo anymore. — Alexander Gould Copy Share Image
Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“Christopher throws dandelion head after dandelion head into his bag. It's getting heavy now and his fingers are stained from the work… — Brian Martinez Copy Share Image
'The Weeds' is a timely podcast from the news and opinion website Vox. It leaves the coverage of the Punch and Judy… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
“popcorn, with Jordan fast on her heels. They sprinted into the dense growth of the overburdened flower beds and began running zigzag… — Tracy Brogan Copy Share Image
WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
I think we've got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and... the approach has been to try and compromise and split… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
“Weeds – even many intrusive aliens – give something back. They green over the dereliction we have created. They move in to… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“If you consider your mind like a garden,' he began earnestly, 'a garden needs to be tended regularly to prevent weeds from… — Tami Egonu Copy Share Image
I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“August 21. ... I've become pretty good at telling weeds fom not-weeds. But every once in a while I have my doubts.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Invasive plants were like all evil things; the only way to ensure that they wouldn't return was to face them head-on, battle… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“In the mind, weeds are negative self-defeating beliefs and ideas that repeat quietly, over and over again, unchallenged, until they seem to… — Asoka Selvarajah Copy Share Image
“The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.” — F.T. McKinstry Copy Share Image