Herbs Quotes - Page 2

• As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

  Thomas More

  Running, Wall, Garden

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• I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.

  David Chang

  Spring, Vegetables, Mushrooms

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• Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Enemy, Grows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Accepting

  YouTube Chanel "hempdottv"/ "Bob Marley interview on Marijuana", www.youtube.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television;
  solitude is herb tea and soft music.

  Pearl Cleage

  Loneliness, Coffee, Being Alone

  Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

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• Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

  Solomon

  Love Is, Hatred, Dinner

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• And Spring arose on the garden fair,
  Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
  And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
  rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspirational, Dream, Nature

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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• The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

  Jacqueline du Pre

  Drunk, Intense, Made

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• What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

  Paracelsus

  Eye, Tree, Stones

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.93, Princeton University Press

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• I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.

  Jason Bateman

  Salmon, Needs, Massage

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• In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

  Philippa Gregory

  Magic, Wish, World

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one's being - from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil's appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it.

  Patience Gray

  Cheer, Food, Vegetables

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• I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

  Curtis Stone

  Vegetables, Lunch, People

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• Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Flower, Roots, Water

  Nicholas Culpeper (1666). “The English Physitian Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs that Were Not in Any Impression Untill This, Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.275

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• When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Heart, Coward, Helping

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874). “Bothwell: A Tragedy”, p.178

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• I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

  James Boswell

  Writing, Yield, Joy

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Fall, People

  "Net Surf", www.wired.com. December 1, 1995.

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• I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

  Ziggy Marley

  Marijuana, Thinking, Smoking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Sweet, Flower, Tree

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1668, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

  Euripides

  Women, Earth, Grows

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.

  Mary Howitt

  Peace, Flower, Men

  Mary Howitt (1855). “Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].”, p.11

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• The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Flower, Vigor, Ought

  Nicholas Culpeper (1666). “The English Physitian Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs that Were Not in Any Impression Untill This, Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.275

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• Chaga is the most powerful cancer-fighting herb known and fights all kinds of radiation damage to healthy tissue.

  David Wolfe

  Powerful, Cancer, Fighting

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