Illustration Quote by Carl Linnaeus Download Open image “A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.” — Carl Linnaeus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Illustration Should
'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the… — Jens Jensen Copy Share Image
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's… — Douglas Houghton Campbell Copy Share Image
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. — Elizabeth Murray Copy Share Image
“Linnaeus's last lesson, of which he himself was unaware, was that professorships kill philosophers. Oh, I'm vain enough to want my burgeoning Flora Japonica… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape.… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other. — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
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LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably)… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to… — John H. Vincent Copy Share Image
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image