Botany Quotes

Botany Quote of the day

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.

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

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

Botany is based on fixed genera.

If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts.

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

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

Every plant is an individual.Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.