Weed Quotes - Page 12

• Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an approach combining the sensible utilisation of grasshoppers and grubs as a valuable dried-protein supplement for fish or food pellets, and a combination of soil conditioning, slashing, and de-stocking or re-seeding to restore species balance.

  Bill Mollison

  Past, Balance, Soil

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Flower, Men, Mind

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• I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  New York, Team, School

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• Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Work, Sunshine, Heaven

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.77

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• Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

  Matthew Arnold

  Light, Wind, Caverns

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 35

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• Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Spring, Eye

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• Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

  Richard Sapir

  Inspirational, Birthday, Focus

  Richard Sapir (1988). “Quest”, Onyx Books

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• The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Flower, Feet, People

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• Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Herbs, Grows

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “King Henry VI, pt. 1-3. King Richard III”, p.461

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• To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Crush, Struggle, Roots

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• Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers, Has in her heart a place for every weed; For her quick eyes require no microscope To note the varied wonders and delights That the Creator's humblest works possess.

  Kobo Abe

  Nature, Flower, Heart

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• Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.

  Mark Lawrence

  Men, Tree, Skins

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• Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Dwelling, Optimism, Negative

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• Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

  Henry Beard

  Flower, Vegetables, Roots

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• Most of the players in the league use marijuana, and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes.

  Josh Howard

  Marijuana, Player, League

  "Cuban: Mavs will deal with Howard's admission of drug use internally". www.espn.com. April 28, 2008.

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• Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs,
  100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

  Jadakiss

  Song, Rap, Cds

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• So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  People, Add, Association

  "Manual Of Justice". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, www.xenu.net. 1959.

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• Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and their supporters in Mexico, Argentina, Eastern Europe, and the Arab world. Instead, those in jackboots and armbands worldwide quietly stowed all their emblems away as organized fascism died on the vine once the roots were torn out in Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo. So too will the terrorists, once their sanctuaries and capital shrivel up - as is happening as we speak.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Roots, Japan, Rome

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• Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Book, Teaching, Writing

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• Now on the first day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me
  A sack of the krazy glue and told me to smoke it up slowly.
  Now on the second day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me
  A fifth of Hendog and told me to take my mind off that weed.
  Now by the third day of Christmas, my big homeboy gave to me
  A whole lot of everything, and it wasn't nuthin' but game to me.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rap, Games, Hip Hop

  Song: Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto, 1996

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• When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Wife, Trouble, My Favorite

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• Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled - though as we'll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they'll just keep coming back again and again.

  Christopher Ryan

  Past, Roots, Growing

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• On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Marijuana, Fields, Exhausted

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• Full moons, skunk weed all up in the room;
  You got the munchies, baby? Ice cold milk and Lorna Doones.

  Ghostface Killah

  Baby, Rap, Moon

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• To rid the grass of weed, to get
  The whole root,
  Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind
  
  And desire - to make clean, make pure.
  The weed, tough
  As the rock it leaps against,
  
  Unless plucked to the last
  Live fiber
  Will plunge up through dark again.
  
  The weed also has the desire
  To make clean,
  Make pure, there against the rock.

  Lucien Stryk

  Strong, Dark, Rocks

  Susan Porterfield, Lucien Stryk (1993). “Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk”, Swallow Pr

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