Quotes About Botany

Nuts grow on trees?" the spider inquired dubiously.

Juniper, Pennyroyal, Lady's-vetch, … and the squat

Most fruit trees need two of a kind for cross-pollination,

Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

Cardinal Monkeyflower

en otro lugar brillaba vivo el color de las azules gencianas

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

Even the simplest knowledge of the names and habits of flowers or trees starts this distinguishing or individuating process, and removes us a step from total reality towards anthropocentrism.

Plants grow more quickly if you talk to them in a Geordie accent.

It takes between 70,000 and 150,000 crocuses to make 2 pounds of saffron.

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean.

Rubus fruticosus agg.

What's a sesame seed grow into? I don't know we never give them a chance, what the fu.. is a sesame?! It's a street... It's a way to open sh.....

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

Trust Indians not to miss any virtues of the plant world! Nothing

In short, Sweet Leaf is a plant which will draw out the fire.

Bean mentions that the tree does not flower until 30 to 40 years of age. American references have stated 10 to 14 years. All authors, including this one, tend to pass along time-honored information without determining, first hand, the actual response in question.

Professor Sprout

Pomona Sprout

Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations.