These herb quotes will inspire you. Herb, a seed-producing annual, biennial, or perennial that does not develop persistent woody tissue but dies down at the end of a growing season.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging herb quotes, herb sayings, and herb proverbs.
Best Herb Quotes
- “Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.” ~ Charlemagne
- “All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.” ~ Paracelsus
- “There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.” ~ Avicenna
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“Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.” ~ Mourning Dove
- “A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.” ~ William Lawson , Herb quotes garden
- “The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.” ~ Bob Marley
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“And may we ever have gratitude in hearts that the great Creator in all His glory has placed the herbs in the field for our healing.” ~ Edward Bach
- “Herb is the unification of mankind.” ~ Bob Marley
- “Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.” ~ Plato
- “Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.” ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
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“As is the garden such is the gardener. A man’s nature runs either to herbs or weeds.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.” ~ Walter Scott
- “My opinion, however, is that they (herbs) are superior 95% of the time to any pharmaceutical drug!” ~ Robert Willner
- “Vegetables, herbs and spices. If you can combine those ingredients, that would be the best dish you’d ever cook!” ~ Rinrin Marinka
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“Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television;
solitude is herb tea and soft music.” ~ Pearl Cleage - “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I love a massage. I’d go every day if I could. I don’t need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.” ~ Jason Bateman
- “Nature….she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I’m serving started out as a seed in my yard.” ~ Curtis Stone
- “How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?” ~ Andrew Marvell
- “Out of 40,000+ herbs used worldwide, perhaps only 50-60 of them are tonic superherbs. These superherbs should be taken for long periods, because, like all tonics, they are more like food and they build health treasures within and nourish our “stress defense shield.”” ~ David Wolfe , Herb quotes health happiness
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“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.” ~ Euripides
- “And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.” ~ Solomon
- “The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.” ~ Jacqueline du Pre
- “There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.” ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
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“What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.” ~ Paracelsus
- “In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.” ~ Philippa Gregory
- “As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.” ~ Thomas More
- “Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.” ~ Bob Marley
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“I think it’s wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.” ~ Ziggy Marley
- “She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary – and a sweet lover who would swing dance with her in the evenings and cook pasta and read poetry aloud.” ~ Francesca Lia Block
- “Pounding fragrant things – particularly garlic, basil, parsley – is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one’s being – from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil’s appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it.” ~ Patience Gray
- “The famous herbalist Samuel Thompson used two herbs mainly, cayenne & lobelia. And with those two herbs, it is estimated he helped 3.5 million people recover from their illnesses.” ~ Richard M. Schulze
- “In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois’nous herbs extracts the healing dew?” ~ Alexander Pope -
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.” ~ Bob Marley
- “Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “Well had Solomon said,’Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby – how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.” ~ Alice B. Toklas
- “I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.” ~ James Boswell
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“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?” ~ Willie Nelson
- “When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.” ~ Bob Marley
- “Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.” ~ Nicholas Culpeper
- “Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors’ pills that kill the liver.” ~ Roseanne Barr
- “Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.” ~ Ovid
- “Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on the grill; the steam will release the herb’s perfume and flavor anything contained inside the pouch.” ~ Emeril Lagasse
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“How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor.” ~ Rosemary Verey
- “The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.” ~ Nicholas Culpeper
- “I do the cooking at home. Where we eat no more than 100 grams of meat a day and have ‘tons’ of fresh vegetables. I prepare the vegetables with a wide range of herbs, spices and such. We also keep on hand lots of fruit, yogurt and great breads.” ~ Graham Kerr , Herb quotes spices
- “Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.” ~ William C. Bryant
- “Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.” ~ Terence McKenna
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“The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.” ~ William C. Bryant
- “I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments – mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives.” ~ Cat Cora
- “Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.” ~ John Milton
- “Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun, and with him rise weeping.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I love a massage. I’d go every day if I could.” ~ Jason Bateman
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“Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.” ~ Van Wyck Brooks
- “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. There’s fennel for you, and columbines: — there ‘s rue for you; and here’s some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o’Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There’s a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a little while on all sides, the Cicada would begin to sing. The grass was me, and the air, the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me. I breathed with the slight night wind in the thorn trees.” ~ Isak Dinesen
- “But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness – the warm odors of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.” ~ Elizabeth Gaskell
