Quotes About Botany

To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography.

And you could always tell ginger plants whose tap root had penetrated a corpse: the blooms were large, iridescent yellow, and it was hard to jerk loose a plant whose roots had hooked a rib below.

I have a big passion for flowers and nature.

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.

La tuna de cactus no es tóxica. No hay ningún estudio que señale alguna reacción tóxica, ya sea aguda o crónica, debido al consumo de tuna o de algún producto derivado de la fruta.

He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical nectarines and Chinese lemons, reds of blood oranges from Mongolia, greens from Central American avocados and grapes from the Caucasus, even purple from dates, raisins, and eggplants that sprouted first in the Middle East.

Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.

Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

God created, Linnaeus ordered.

Draba plucks no heartstrings. Its perfume, if there is any, is lost in the gusty winds. Its color is plain white. Its leaves wear a sensible woolly coat. Nothing eats it; it is too small. No poets sing of it. Some botanist once gave it a Latin name, and then forgot it. Altogether, it is of no importance – just a small creature that does a small job quickly and well.

Mechanized man, oblivious of floras, is proud of his progress in cleaning up the landscape on which, willy-nilly, he must live out his days. It might be wise to prohibit at once all teaching of real botany and real history, lest some future citizen suffer qualms about the floristic price of his good life.

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

I'm a plant eater.

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

I'm good with furniture, very bad with plants.

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.