“There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.”
Source: Les Misérables
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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes

1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. I ask nothing of the nation except that it so behave as each farmer here behaves with reference to his own children. That farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself. I believe the same thing of a nation.
Engage in constructive forms of communication – Bishop Martin Olorunmolu https://www.nationalupdate.com.ng/engage-in-constructive-forms-of-communication-bishop-martin-olorunmolu/ (30 May 2017)

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

In a letter to Frederic George Young of the University of Oregon, as quoted in Women of the Gold Rush https://archive.org/stream/womenofgoldrusht00vict#page/n17/mode/2up

“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged

Source: Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939

The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation