Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
“Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants.” — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive” — Frederick Turner Copy Share Image
Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity. — Gilles Clement Copy Share Image
If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing.… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge.… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
“I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better,… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Douglas Houghton Campbell Copy Share Image
“That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Not one of them [formulae] can be shown to have any existence, so that the formula of one of the simplest of… — Alexander William Williamson Copy Share Image
“The cave was cool and silent- thoroughly carpeted- with the most luxuriant mantle of mosses Alma Whittaker had ever seen. The cave… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“{ Yogananda on the death of his dear friend, the eminent 20th century scientist, Luther Burbank } His heart was fathomlessly deep,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If these d'Herelle bodies were really genes, fundamentally like our chromosome genes, they would give us an utterly new angle from which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall.… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“The investigation described in the subsequent pages bears close relation to three sciences. It was approached by the author from the standpoint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love… — Melina Sempill Watts Copy Share Image
we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the… — George Bentham Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I got into magic because I got into alchemy. Which I got into because I was into chemistry, which I was learning… — Drew Hayes Copy Share Image
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