Famous weeds quotations

   I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.  Nice Word by Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1903

   What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.  Meaningful Quotation by Donald Culross Peattie

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   A weed is but an unloved flower.  Good Quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

   What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.  Wise Phrase by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878

   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.  Wise Phrase by E.J. Salisbury, The Living Garden, 1935

   But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last.  Famous Saying by Robert M. Pyle

   One person's weed is another person's wildflower.  Nice Word by Author Unknown

   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.  Meaningful Quotation by Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973

   Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.  Good Quote by Dave Barry

   One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.  Wise Phrase by John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881

   A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.  Wise Phrase by Doug Larson

   But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's.  Famous Saying by Author Unknown

   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.  Nice Word by Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994



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