Chiefs Quote by Charles Darwin

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of…

— William Bartram

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point…

— George Santayana

“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

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

— Asa Gray

The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a…

— Samuel Johnson

Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.

— Saint Basil

“Watching gardeners label their plants I vow with all beings to practice the old horticulture and let plants identify me.”

— Robert Aitken

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example…

— Jonathan Swift

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

— Christopher Tunnard

A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.

— Carl Linnaeus

“That is the difference between a botanist and a poet: a botanist knows about the flower, the poet knows the flower.”

— Osho

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult…

— Vita Sackville-West