Quotes About Botany

Climbers — Altissimo, Don Juan, Jeanne Lajoie, Sombreuil, America, Royal Sunset and Handel. Shrubs — Dortmund, Hansa, Ruskin, Will

Climbers — Altissimo, Don Juan, Jeanne Lajoie, Sombreuil, America, Royal Sunset and Handel. Shrubs — Dortmund, Hansa, Ruskin, Will Scarlet, Wanderin' Wind, Golden Wings

Lavallee, Apothecary's Rose, Celsiana, Crested Moss, Souvenir de la Malmaison

Duchesse de Branbant, General Jacqueminot, Honorine de Branbant, Mme. Hardy and Salet. Hybrid-tea

ABNODATION  (ABNODA'TION)   n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict.

ALL-HEAL  (ALL-HEAL)   n.s. [Panax, Lat.]A species of ironwort; which see.

Te ocupas de la botánica? ¿De la óptica? ¿Qué haces? ¿No es una ganancia más hermosa conmover a un corazón tierno? Ah. los corazones tiernos. Un charlatán es capaz de conmoverlos. Que sea mi única dicha conmoverte a ti, naturaleza.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

The AlphabetOf flowers.

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

For the roots of plants are analogous to what is called the mouth in an animal, being the organ by which food is admitted.

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

Mendel's last forays into botany included the satisfying demonstration that even the greatest living scientists could be wrong. Armed with a fine paintbrush and a microscope, the poor-sighted abbot proved that a single grain of pollen was enough to fertilise an ovum – something that Charles Darwin had insisted was impossible.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Botanists have done their best to intimidate and confuse the nature lover. But we should not allow ourselves to be discouraged; we have as much right to the enjoyment of wild flowers as they. So I will disregard the botanist and I will go looking for the pretty flower that I have named Merry Heart. It is always nodding and dancing in the breeze. It is a happy flower, deserving of a happy, light name.

Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That's right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought!

The greenhouse—distant cousin, Ida, reportedly something of a botanist. The bed where we conceived Lily: Great-great-great-great-Aunt Minerva. Aunt Augustine's dish set isn't just an heirloom—it really is Aunt Augustine.

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

I am the Angel of Death to any kind of plant.

I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany. We know nothing for certain, but we seem to see that the world turns upon growing, grows towards growing, and growing clean and green.

The vegetable kingdom still remains one of the few which Napoleon has not yet conquered.

Some rose petals are poisonous.