In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry…

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

— Andrew Weil

“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

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

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

— Michael Ondaatje

Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was…

— Cassandra Clare

When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the…

— John T. Flynn

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

— Anonymous

Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone…

— Tituss Burgess