Weed Quotes - Page 17

• The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

  Freya Stark

  Flower, Thinking, Hands

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• For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Treasure, Students

  Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.152, Shambhala Publications

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• On no other ground
  Can I sow my seed
  Without tearing up
  Some stinking weed.

  William Blake

  Seeds

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.109, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.

  Jack Harlan

  Men, Definitions, Firsts

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• The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Prayer, Kneeling

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.276, Library of America

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• Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

  Michael Pollan

  Men, Firsts, Definitions

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Work, Yellow

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.113, Xist Publishing

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• I was raised in the city, shitty
  Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty
  Drinkin' liquor out my momma's titty
  And smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household,
  And drinking liquor til' you out cold

  Tupac Shakur

  Drinking, Rap, Cities

  Song: Death Around The Corner

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• To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.

  Bill Hicks

  Mistake, Marijuana, Law

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• To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'

  Oprah Winfrey

  Marijuana, Television, Lasts

  "Oprah Winfrey admits she smoked marijuana in 1982: 'I hear it's gotten better'" By Margaret Eby, www.nydailynews.com. August 16, 2013.

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• The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.

  Clarence Thomas

  Marijuana, College, White

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• Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high?

  Jon Stewart

  Know How, Knows, Do You Know

  "50 Successful Marijuana Users Who Prove The Person Matters More Than The Plant" By Ryan J. Reilly, Robin Wilkey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'

  Jay-Z

  Finished

  "Feature: Time To Build". www.xxlmag.com. September 14, 2009.

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• Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana... About 50,000 times.

  Bill Maher

  Marijuana, Secret, Looks

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• Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us
  Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious
  Thug ass niggaz that love to bust, it's strange to us
  Y'all niggaz be scramblin, gamblin
  Up in restaraunts with mandolins, and violins
  We just sittin here tryin to win, tryin not to sin
  High off weed and lots of gin
  So much smoke need oxygen, steadily countin them Benjamins

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Rap, Angel, Winning

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• ... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

  Angelina Jolie

  Hate, Silly, Feelings

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• I don't smoke much pot anymore.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Pot, Smoke

  "MacFarlane Swears Off Marijuana" by Wenn.com, July 3, 2008.

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• Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it.

  Beryl Markham

  Essence, Roots, Earth

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.

  Surya Das

  Moving, Taken, Garden

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• Pot always just made me sleepy.

  Bryan Cranston

  Sleepy, Pot, Made

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
  By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,
  While better men than we go out, and start their working lives
  By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Garden, Knives

  1911 'The Glory of the Garden'.

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• But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

  Robert Solow

  Jobs, Fun, Errors

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• I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Marijuana, Tree

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• Smokin weed on the star projectors, I guess we'll never know what Harvard gets us

  Drake

  Stars, School, Harvard

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• If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.

  Davies Gilbert

  Garden, Long, Plant

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