Quotes About Botany

a sort of botanical glory-hole

What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more from a book of botany or geology. We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own. This is true, of course, only for realms where the ego is rampant.

What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more from a book of botany or geology. We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own. This is true, of course, only for realms where the ego is rampant, §

For some reason I keep getting connected to men who have something to do with plants.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Flowers are plant penises

There are trees growing in Philadelphia (at Fourth and Spruce Streets) and the University of Virginia (at Morea, a guest house) today that grew from the cuttings Lewis sent.

There are trees growing in Philadelphia (at Fourth and Spruce Streets) and the University of Virginia (at Morea, a guest house) today that grew from the cuttings Lewis sent.14 And as historian Michael Brodhead notes, this was the beginning of "a rich, almost uniquely American phenomenon: the military naturalist.

The nettles and cow parsley came up in swathes, the bindweed trumpeting through the hedges

What purpose in nature is served by parsley, when it has no taste and no nutritional value; and

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

A flower is a plant's way of making love.

To Alderheart's surprise, it actually was watermint.

If these are the achievements of man, give me the achievements of geraniums.

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

The President of the York society (whose name was Dr Foxcastle) turned to John Segundus and explained that the question was a wrong one. "It presupposes that magicians have some sort of duty to do magic – which is clearly nonsense. You would not, I imagine, suggest that it is the task of botanists to devise more flowers? Or that astronomers should labour to rearrange the stars? Magicians, Mr Segundus, study magic which was done long ago. Why should any one expect more?

There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.

Each strand of corn silk is actually a hollow tube connected to the undeveloped mother cob. The pollen travels down the silk to the cob, where it forms a single kernel. Each kernel has its own silk attached to it. Someone up there thought of everything, because they even made it so the silk is covered with a sticky substance that catches the pollen. To make sure it doesn't just blow away.

I was more of, like, into butterflies, insects, playing out in the yard, planting flowers. I was really into plants.