Quotes About Botanical

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

los pétalos de la flor del cactus se cosechan, secan y posteriormente se venden sueltos o en bolsitas de té, cápsulas o extracto líquido.

Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.

Bred to the pavement and steel that became his life's work, he nonetheless marvels at the annual miracle of baby peregrine falcons hatching high atop the George Washington's towers, and at the sheer botanical audacity of grass, weeds, and ailanthus trees that defiantly bloom, far from topsoil, from metal niches suspended high above the water.

I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We've got masses.

could smell the peppery-sweet perfume of pinks

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

I have a lot of plants - my living room is like a jungle. I like the idea of bringing the outside in.

Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.

Well, I've made elderflower cordial.

larkspur and lupine, foxglove and Indian paintbrush.

evolutionary pressures have adapted the human brain to store immense quantities of botanical, zoological, topographical and social information.

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

Plumes of white, pink, and purple blossoms offset the one hundred shades of green our little city is known for this time of year: lime, celery, and avocado, butter lettuce and kale, Granny Smith apple and broccoli and sage.

placing a raceme of purple orchids in the vase on his desk

Use plants to bring life.

She turned back to inspect a bank of greens: olive, jade, leaf, kiwi, lime, a silver-green like the back of birch leaves, a bright pistachio.

There was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them.

Her favorite patch was the least showy: the herb garden. A raised stone circle, no bigger than a beach umbrella, was filled with rosemary, sage, wild thyme, mint, lemon verbena, lavender, and burnet.

I love nature and botanical gardens.

The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

an herbalist—

Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant.