A Quote by Jim Thompson

A weed is a plant out of place.

Jim Thompson

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Out Place Plant Weed

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Jim Thompson
American - Author
September 27, 1906 - April 7, 1977

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 C. Peattie

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.

Edward James Salisbury

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

Sara Bonnett Stein

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

What do we plant when we plant a tree? A thousand things that we daily see, We plant the spire that out-towers the crag, We plant the staff for our country's flag; We plant the shade from the hot sun free, We plant all these when we plant the tree.

Henry Abbey

Plant the seeds of your dreams and weed all the objections out.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

John Galsworthy

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

Steve Lacy

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

Edmund White

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.

Kirsten Dunst

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

Henry Abbey

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people