“Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds: grow.”

“No garden is without its weeds.”

“The human heart is a garden, wherein grow weeds of memory and blooms of hope, and the snow falls at last and covers all.”

“It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness.
They're so hard to pull.
And grow back so easily.”

“An ill weed grows apace.”

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

“Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.”

“There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy.”

“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”

“Gossip grows like weeds
In a summer meadow.
My girl and I
Sleep arm in arm.”