Disregarded Quote by Carl Linnaeus

There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this…

— Pliny the Elder

“Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.”

— Lemony Snicket

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Even as I learned to name the plants -- dogwood, five-fingered fern, mugwort -- I was stunned by the failure of language to reflect…

— Katharine Haake

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a…

— Allen Lacy

From the withered tree, a flower blooms

— Japanese Anime

“You should see the way she smiles when I rattle off the names of the orchids in the greenhouse: oncidium, dendrobium, bulbophyllum, and epidendrum,…

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

“Cootamundra wattle Meaning: I wound to heal Acacia baileyana | New South Wales Graceful tree with fern-like foliage and bright golden-yellow globe-shaped flower heads.…

— Holly Ringland

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.

— Thomas Starr King

“There were no ferns or shocks of crabgrass or other signs of plant life—only the presence of ancient, hulking trees. The woods had a…

— Jeff Wheeler