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Weed Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
- Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer…
- If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language…
- I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by…
- This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about two years before.…
More Weed Quotes
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — Francis Bacon
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac
- Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead… — William Bernbach
- Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. — William Beveridge
- I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then… — Roy Blount, Jr.
- Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by… — Charlotte Bronte
- The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. — Sylvia Browne
- If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in… — Luther Burbank
- Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. — Edmund Burke
- In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt
- I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly. I try to weed out stuff. My girlfriends come over for cheese and wine… — Jennifer Aniston