It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to…

“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

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

— Albert Hofmann

“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

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

“Great opportunities are rare only to those that cannot see them.”

— Glenn Llopis

“Too Weird Too Live; Too Rare Too Die.”

— Anonymous

I've chosen a career that's quite tricky. You have such high highs and low lows, and it's outrageously inconsistent. But it is what I…

— Annaleigh Ashford

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

— Bebe Neuwirth

It's very rare that you get that period of time to hang out with your best buddy and ride motorbikes.

— Charley Boorman