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• The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a little while on all sides the Cicada would begin to sing. The grass was me , and the air, the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me. I breathed with the slight night-wind in the thorn trees.

  Isak Dinesen

  Tired, Night, Long Grass

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Grace, Grows

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

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• Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a butterfly caught in amber, a cat's eye shell, a bolt of lightning forged from the heart of a falling star, and the flower of the rue plant, herb of grace. The queen gave each of her six children one of the charms as their lucky talisman, but ever since the chain of charms was broken, the gypsies had been dogged with misfortune.

  Kate Forsyth

  Horse, Queens, Stars

  Kate Forsyth (2007). “The Gypsy Crown: Chain of Charms 1”, Pan Australia

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• And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Winter, Italian, Garden

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.

  Jorge Cruise

  Believe, Vegetables, Magic

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• With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs. There are profound changes happening in the American culture and herbal medicine, 'green medicine,' is playing an ever-increasing role in people's experience of this transformation.

  David Hoffman

  Medicine, Profound, People

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• Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.

  Scott Cunningham

  Book, Simple, Wind

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.101, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Simplicity, Simple Life

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Sweet, Eye, Effort

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• Weed's not as bad as everything else... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain't crisp... but you'll function.

  Dave Chappelle

  Weed, Mean, Substance

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• The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

  Christopher Columbus

  Christian, Men, Hands

  "Christopher Columbus: Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Christopher Columbus (journal entry dated November 6, 1492), 1492-1493.

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• he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing

  Barney Kessel

  Music

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• Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Men, Drunk

  Interview with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand, 1979.

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• As for the bitter herbs.... To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point - bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering.

  Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

  Fun, Laughing, Suffering

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• There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.

  Pliny the Elder

  Flower, Wind, Skills

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• In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for the next 200 years. Pinkroot fell into disuse in the early 1900's, simply because greedy herb dealers adulterated or even substituted shipments of true pinkroot with quantities of other plants.

  Michael Savage

  Dark, Years, Two

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• Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can't smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit', God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb.

  Bob Marley

  Men, People, Cigar

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• Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Marijuana, Long

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• Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dog, Stars, Flower

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• The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon.

  Bob Marley

  Ghana, Blood, Jamaica

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• Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Lying, Garden

  William Shakespeare, Gayle Holste (2002). “Othello”, p.68, Barron's Educational Series

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• There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, Healing, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

  Jose Marti

  Art, Grief, Rain

  Jose Marti (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.273, Penguin

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• The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Eye, Dark, Hands

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• I love grilling. Grilling is an incredible way to keep healthy. And you can marinate both with a dry rub and also wet marinades. You can marinate juniper berry or a little bit of olive oil and some citrus and fresh herbs - all of that sort of stuff.

  Curtis Stone

  Oil, Healthy, Berries

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