The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky…

“To Tree’s surprise, e could still feel the blade of Univervia that was on the deer’s tongue. And the feelings that came at Tree…

— Melina Sempill Watts

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what…

— John Muir

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, and as…

— Thomas Sydenham

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which…

— Gilbert White

“This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly looking elderly…

— Bill Bryson

“Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants.”

— Asa Gray

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows…

— Natasha Trethewey

If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they…

— Joseph Paxton

'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with…

— Ambrose Bierce

“I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

“Every plant is an individual. Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom…

— Dale Pendell

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of…

— Carl Linnaeus

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe