Source: Religion and the rise of modern science, 1972, p. 8
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”
“By its seed each herb is recognized.”
Canto XVI, line 114 (tr. Longfellow).
Compare: "Ye shall know them by their fruits." Matthew 7:16 KJV.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Context: All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”
“The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.”
"Bob Marley interview on Marijuana" (1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFbFOxbPJk from the Come A Long Way documentary, made for New Zealand TV show Good Day (1979) with reporter Dylan Taite
“5465. Weeds are apt to grow faster than good Herbs.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
SGU, Podcast #78 – January 15th, 2007 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/78
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast, 2000s
“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”
Source: Ivanhoe
“Herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.”
Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 85
