Quotes About Botanical

Use plants to bring life.

a sort of botanical glory-hole

Like Elliott, Angleton cultivated a brand of high eccentricity: he gave his agents botanical code names such as "Fig," "Rose," or "Tomato" and sported a fur cape with a high collar, which made him look "like a British actor emulating a Thirties spy.

It is probably significant that the most widespread words in the world—borrowed into virtually every language—are the names of the four great caffeine plants: coffee, cacao, cola, and tea. [Quoting F.N. Anderson's 'The Food of China' (1988).]

Real cardamom is expensive, second only to saffron in price, and there are lots of inferior substitutes from cardamom-related plants masquerading as the real thing. Only Elettaria cardamomum—its botanical name—is

Great Wass Island Preserve is a 1,579-acre Nature Conservancy jewel, a place of spectacular botanical interest, and Jonesport is situated on a postcard-pretty harbor. Tourism is not serious business in those parts - boat building and fishing are - and there are no signs telling how to get to Great Wass. But I know.

I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

I love indoor plants. It makes any room feel open, fresh and homey. Keeping them alive is always a fun challenge for me!

The species name is kind of like your own first name (except it comes last in a plant's botanical name). The genus name is similar to your family name (except in botanical names, it comes first).

I'm a farmer! We have a farm that's part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Maui, and we raise macadamia nuts.

It has always been my belief that Protestants, born with innate knowledge of all things botanical, cannot help but think less of you if you have to ask.

Rose is the most beautiful flower - it and tuberose are my favourites.

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

It is the dull urban blight beyond them that is most likely to be bulldozed away in the next century, to be replaced by greenbelts, botanical parks,

Thistles and dandelions, They are my flowers. Burdock and tangleweed, Blackberries sour

He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.

People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.

ginger flowers

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, famous for its collection of more than six thousand living orchids.

Clearly, any well-kept garden will be a source of pleasure in the summer months; in the bleak urban midwinter, however, there are few activities more likely to energise the spirit than a botanical walk.