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.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.

Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.