Quotations about Weeds

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


A weed is but an unloved flower. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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. ~Author Unknown


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


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


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


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


Weeds are nature's graffiti. ~Janice Maeditere


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. ~Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994


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. ~E.J. Salisbury, The Living Garden, 1935


I learn more about God
From weeds than from roses;
Resilience springing
Through the smallest chink of hope
In the absolute of concrete....
~Phillip Pulfrey, "Weeds," Perspectives, www.originals.net


First time I've picked weeds in almost a year. Definitely missed it. I love the smell of dirt and plant revealing their hidden nature. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. ~Author Unknown


Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own. ~Author Unknown


Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don't get around
Like the dandelions do.
~Slim Acres


Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. ~A.A. Milne


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


May all your weeds be wildflowers. ~Author Unknown


Free Weeds
U Pick 'Em
~Author Unknown


You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ~Terri Guillemets


Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ~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. ~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973


A good garden may have some weeds. ~Thomas Fuller


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. ~Author Unknown


Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. ~William Shakespeare


A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds
And when the weeds begin to grow
It's like a garden full of snow...
~John Fletcher, part of a nursery rhyme (Thanks, Paul!)


Weed 'em and reap. ~Author Unknown


Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown


Don't water your weeds. ~Proverb


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


He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. ~Henry Ward Beecher


A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. ~Francis Bacon


Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ~Leonardo da Vinci