![]() Skill except for learning how to grow in rows." "A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters." Invitation and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Humble, unnoticed, yet possessing great strength and kindness."įertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. I think a virtuous man should be like grass. Provides food for animals, shelter for insects, and joy to some funny Typhoon strikes and all the flowers die and all the trees get uprooted, It glows in healthy green despite being stepped all over, and when a It is so humble that itĮven allows people to walk all over it. It doesn't try to beīeautiful or outstanding. "When I have the time to take a walk, I would often take the Really stretching yourself as a gardener." Themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, Grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage Kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature." "The prayer of the farmer kneeling in hisįield to weed it, the prayer of the rower "A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, Serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed." When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden you interrupt the Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things." Our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in yourįingers, leaving the root to grow and spread.ĭifferent weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of Gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. "People who spend a great deal of time in their The question of propriety is decided by the Matter of fact, there are some instances where theyĪre necessary for the garden. Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1903 They growĪpace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of." If things are left to go overgrow, they look out of shape, scale and control." ![]() "One of the truest of gardening sayings is that you have to be cruel to be To kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons." Often a pleasure, sometimes a pain in the wrongĪn example of the wondrous assertion of Being." I neither hoe, nor plant, nor water, nor fertilize, nor prune. I enjoy their beauty and variety, and do nothing to reap their "What a diversity of creative wanderers. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Verses, Lore, Myths, HolidaysĬelebrations, Folklore, Reading, Links, Quotations "A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to Well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden." ![]() Thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity." Which for one reason or another would be better offĪre, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, "The unmulched garden looks to me like some "More grows in the garden than the gardener Treated all the weeds and slugs and birdsĪnd trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?" "What would become of the garden if the gardener While better men than we go out, and start their working livesīy grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives." ![]() Eliminate them."īy singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, Relationships, substances and emotions are feeding on your energy and taking away from The result of your careful cultivation, inĪnd in your life, can be lost to predators in a short time. "Many things love to come and live off your plants, including bacteria,ĭon't control them, entire crops can be ruined. Until it has a chance to grow and spread." In my wood and weed around it with the utmost care We may condemn it to destruction forthwith." If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter If we see any immediate utility in a plant "Our attitude towards plants is a singularly Chang San-feng, legendary founder of T'ai Chi Ch'uan, circa 1300 A.D. The weeds of the mind if you do not clear them away, concentration and wisdom do not Produce good crops as long as the weeds are not cleared away. This is like the case of the fertile field, Removed, it is impossible to attain stability. "What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and Weeds (Golden Guide) Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. "But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow Seasons Gardening Blog Flowers Index Home Pruning, Thinning, Culling Quotes for Those that Love Gardens, Gardening and the Green Way Compiled by Karen and Mike Weeds, Weeding, Pruning - Quotes, Poems and Wisdom for Gardeners ![]()
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