Botany Quote by Johann Hermann Baas Download Open image “Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.” — Johann Hermann Baas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Botany Children Daughter Eldest Eldest daughter Medicine Mother Mother daughter
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 to be published one day--as a votive offering to human knowledge--but a seat at Uppsala, or Leiden, or Cambridge, holds no allure. My heart is the East's in this lifetime. This is my third year in… — David Mitchell Copy Share
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is,… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
“Years ago, when she'd studied the constructions of stem, blade, stamen, ovule, she loved the infinite possibilities of the plant kingdom- but she had been interested in color, scent, presentation: the beautiful names- cloth-of-gold crocus; ash-leaved trumpet, star-of-Bethlehem; meadow saffron- the loveliness of a blown field of asters or irises, a ring of roses to bed a wedding cake, the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Alma wrote in depth about laurel, mimosa, and verbena. She wrote about grapes and camellias, about the myrtle orange, about the cosseting of figs,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“The doctors in Songnam-ri had to be farmers, too. They cultivated medicinal plants, and actually grew their own cotton to have a supply of… — Yeonmi Park Copy Share Image
“Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants.” — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
“Every plant is an individual. Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom… — Dale Pendell Copy Share Image
“I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined. — Gilbert White Copy Share
This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease! Comment to Hans Sloane… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had… — John Muir Copy Share
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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