Herbs are plants that contain fragrance and have aromatic properties which can be used to add flavor to food and can also be included as a part of natural fragrances and natural medicines.
All the well-known herbs are green or leafy parts of some kind of plant, beginning with basil, rosemary, thyme, and parsley. These known herbs have great value in the medical and food industry.
Nature has given us everything we need to lead a healthy and beautiful life. With every recurring problem, there would definitely be a perfect solution; as such, there is no disease without a remedy. Here are 66 fascinating herbal quotes derived from famous sayings and health experts.
Famous Herbal Quotes
Before getting into the famous herbal quotes, take a moment to think about what comes to your mind when you think of herbs. You guessed right; they are primarily used in essential oils, medicine, and food. The fun fact is herbs are food that's also medicine. With that note, let's get to know about the most famous herbal quotes.
“Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.”
- Charlemagne.
“The Romans brought with them spices such as ginger, pepper and cinnamon, and herbs including borage, chervil, dill, fennel, lovage, sage and thyme, all of which have remained staples of the British kitchen.”
- Monty Don.
“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.”
- Walter Scott
“A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.”
- Chinese Proverb.
“There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.”
- Avicenna.
“When kids help cook, even if it's just shredding the herbs or stirring the pot, they eat more and they eat better.”
- Laurie David.
“Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.”
- Rumi.
“I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.”
- Jorge Cruise.
“What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.”
- Paracelsus.
"An album is a garden, not for show
Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow."
- Charles Lamb.
“The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.”
- Arthur Gray.
“Elevate the humble sausage casserole to a new level by adding some Worcestershire sauce, some Muscovado sugar, mixed herbs and some red wine.”
- Dave Myers.
“Vegetables, herbs and spices. If you can combine those ingredients, that would be the best dish you'd ever cook!”
- Rinrin Marinka.
“How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?”
- Andrew Marvell.
“The scope of herbal medicine ranges from mild-acting plant medicines such as chamomile and peppermint, to very potent ones such as foxglove (from which the drug digitalis is derived).”
- Donald Brown.
“What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.”
- William Lawson.
“The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.”
- Ouida.
Herbal Quotes About Healing And Health
(Read the top 10 healing and health herbal quotes to lead a healthier and wealthier life here.)
Consuming herbs helps prevent heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Besides, it also possesses anti-tumor and anti-inflammatory properties and helps reduce blood clots. Research has shown that garlic, fenugreek, and lemongrass may help lower cholesterol. Discover herbs' healing and health benefits through the herbal quotes mentioned below.
“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.
“Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.”
- Michael Greger.
“A person who finds a herb has found a cure.”
- Michael Bassey Johnson.
“There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne.
“Chaga is the most powerful cancer-fighting herb known and fights all kinds of radiation damage to healthy tissue.”
- David Wolfe.
“Oregano is such an antioxidant-rich herb that researchers decided to see if it could reduce the DNA-damaging effects of radiation.”
- Michael Greger.
“Steam inhalation is a lovely way to take in the goodness offered by some herbs.”
- Amy Leigh Mercree
“There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.”
- Ophelia, 'Hamlet', William Shakespeare.
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world revolves.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh.
“Forgiveness Is the Fragrance the Violet Sheds on the Heel That Has Crushed It.”
- Mark Twain.
“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”
- Lin Yutang.
"Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
And sweet thyme true,
Primrose, first born child of Ver,
Merry Springtime's harbinger."
- Francis Beaumont.
“You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopath (orthodoxy) to destroy it.”
- Mark Twain.
“There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.”
- 'The Winter's Tale', William Shakespeare.
“There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.”
- Yotam Ottolenghi.
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.”
- Luther Burbank.
“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favour compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.”
- T. A. Edison
Soothing Herbal Quotes
Even though we talk about herbs and their values in medicines and foods, we can't deny that herbs have much more to them. For example, herbs are used in air purifiers, perfumes, beauty products, and a lot more, and not to say there are even more unknown treasures that herbs provide us with which are yet to be discovered.
Discover some soothing herbal quotes to begin your day.
“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.
“Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.”
- Van Wyck Brooks.
“Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.”
- Karen Rose.
“The joyful presence of Nature is the clear direction of the presence of love.”
- Robbie George.
“My opinion, however, is that they (herbs) are superior 95% of the time to any pharmaceutical drug!”
- Robert Willner.
“Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.”
- Letitia Baldrige
“My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship.”
- Euell Gibbons.
“Herbalism was the grounding of flower power. Nature woke us up.”
- David Hoffmann.
“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.”
- Pearl Cleage.
“Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.”
- Van Wyck Brooks.
“One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.”
- Mechthild of Magdeburg.
“The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.”
- Euell Gibbons.
“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is a woman.”
- Euripides.
“A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.”
- Henry David Thoreau.
“The first gathering of salads, radishes, and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?”
- Alice B. Toklas.
“Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.”
- Daniel D. Palmer.
Excellent Herbal Quotes
Herbs are produced from seed-producing perennial, biennial, and annual plants that possess the property to remove all bacteria from the body, heal diseases permanently, and build a healthy body. Find the top 16 brilliant herbal quotes, sayings, and proverbs taken from herbal experts, researchers, and scientists here.
“The introduction of homeopathy forced the old-school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.”
- Mark Twain.
“No Persian meal is complete without an abundance of herbs.”
- Samin Nosrat.
“The classic Italian green sauce, salsa verde, is easy to make and especially nice in the spring when bunches of fresh herbs start appearing in the farmers market or in your garden.”
- Tom Douglas.
“But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herbs came sweet upon the sense.”
- Elizabeth Gaskell.
“In the early 1700s, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for the next 200 years.”
- Michael Savage.
"Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed, it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri."
- Dara O Briain.
"As great a store
Have we of books as bees of herbs or more."
- Henry Vaughan.
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you, it shall be for meat.”
- 'The Genesis'.
“A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with everyday herbs.”
- Chinua Achebe.
“I studied homeopathy for years and years. Herbs and all kinds of acupuncture, acupressure, and alternative medicine. I think it's just better to treat the whole person.”
- Sissy Spacek.
“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 dumb language.”
- Thomas More.
“There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.”
- Sarah Orne Jewett.
“The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.”
- Nicholas Culpeper.
"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.
“Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.” - Pearl Cleage.
"There's rosemary and rue. These keep
Seeming and savoring all winter long.
Grace and remembrance be to you."
- William Shakespeare.
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