Devising Quote by Diane Ackerman

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

Words are seeds they land in our hearts and not the ground. Be careful what you plant and careful what you say. You might…

— Ritu Ghatourey

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

— Jan Struther

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone…

— Richard Louv

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is…

— Annie Dillard

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

— Evelyn Waugh

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

— Robert Harbison

“Sadly, the natural world is not short of people who believe that rattling off Latin names incessantly makes them appear clever, whereas most of…

— Tristan Gooley

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book…

— Thomas George Bonney

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

— Asa Gray

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

— Peter Sloterdijk

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

— Charles R. Swindoll