They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.

— Mary Beard

There's a lot of good Latin personnel out in baseball, coaching, in the front office, and it's nice to be recognized. But I really…

— Dave Martinez

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists…

— John Lubbock

Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no…

— Carl Linnaeus

“Alma wrote in depth about laurel, mimosa, and verbena. She wrote about grapes and camellias, about the myrtle orange, about the cosseting of figs,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not…

— Henry David Thoreau

Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists.…

— Corneille Ewango

All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be…

— Carl Linnaeus

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

— Andrew Weil

Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists.…

— Bill Mollison

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

— John Muir

Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ...…

— Oliver Lodge

You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

— Carly Fiorina

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You…

— Frank Gehry

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So…

— Robert Caro