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
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
But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last. – Robert M. Pyle
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
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
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. – Author Unknown
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. – William Shakespeare
Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. – Author Unknown
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
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. – Leonardo da Vinci
