Careful Quote by Sefton Delmer

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

— Confucius

“Gardener: ...Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All…

— William Shakespeare

“A garden is a device for insuring that weeds don't become extinct”

— The Germinator

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

— Helen DeWitt

“You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

— William Shakespeare

Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth.

— Santoka Taneda

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

— Shunryu Suzuki

“Good things lost amid a wilderness of weeds, to be sure, whose rankness far overtopped their neglected growth; yet, notwithstanding, evidence of a wealthy…

— Emily Brontë

“...daily receiving the old physician in his study; or visiting the laboratory, and, for recreation's sake, watching the processes by which weeds were converted…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A fertile mind may still produce many weeds.”

— Revel