"In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry……" — John Muir
"In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts."
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273 Quotes by John Muir
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It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
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What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead…
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other…
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Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten…
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any…
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while…
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why…
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ...…
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Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same…
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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth…
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Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of…
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More Botanists Quotes
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Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
— Kazimir Malevich
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I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have…
— William O. Douglas
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It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.
— Andrew Weil
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All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full…
— Bill Mollison
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They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.
— Albert Hofmann
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