--- title: "3 Joseph Paxton Quotes - Famous Botanist" description: "Sir Joseph Paxton was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Liberal Member of Parliament. Browse 3 Joseph Paxton quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joseph-paxton-53466.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Joseph Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joseph-paxton-53466.jpg) # Joseph Paxton (1804–1865) Botanist **3** quotes in **57** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Joseph Paxton was a botanist, best known for *Paxton's magazine of botany and register of flowering plants*. ## Quick Facts About Joseph Paxton Born August 3, 1804 Died June 8, 1865 Profession Botanist Notable works Paxton's magazine of botany and register of flowering plants ## About Joseph Paxton Sir Joseph Paxton was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Liberal Member of Parliament. He is best known for designing the Crystal Palace, which was built in Hyde Park, London to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, the first world's fair, great public parks such as Birkenhead Park, and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world. ## Quotes by Joseph Paxton > [If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-paxton/if-we-range-through-the-whole-territory-of-nature-and-endeavour-to/) [Joseph Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-paxton/) [Affinity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affinity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6a/joseph-paxton-75277_affinity_if-we-range-through-the-whole-territory_651404.jpg) > [No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-paxton/no-occupation-is-more-worthy-of-an-intelligent-and-enlightened-mind/) [Joseph Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-paxton/) [Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f9/joseph-paxton-75277_animal_no-occupation-is-more-worthy-of-an-intel_748861.jpg) > [Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-paxton/botany-the-science-of-the-vegetable-kingdom-is-one-of-the-most/) [Joseph Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-paxton/) [Accounts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accounts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21b/joseph-paxton-75277_accounts_botany-the-science-of-the-vegetable-king_3080330.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-paxton/#itemlist", "name": "Joseph Paxton Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joseph Paxton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-paxton/if-we-range-through-the-whole-territory-of-nature-and-endeavour-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6a/joseph-paxton-75277_affinity_if-we-range-through-the-whole-territory_651404.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6a/joseph-paxton-75277_affinity_if-we-range-through-the-whole-territory_651404.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6a/joseph-paxton-75277_affinity_if-we-range-through-the-whole-territory_651404.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich…” — Joseph Paxton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; 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