Quotes on weeds
One person's weed is another person's wildflower.
Unknown, Author
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.
Salisbury, E.J.
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
Peattie, Donald Culross
A weed is but an unloved flower.
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
Unknown, Author
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Larson, Doug
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.
Unknown, Author
But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last.
Pyle, Robert M.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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.
Benson, Dianne
I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.
Ely, Helena Rutherfurd
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.
Lloyd, Christopher
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.
Barry, Dave