"Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show……" — John Ruskin

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• we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of… — Thomas Jefferson
• Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are.… — Ambrose Bierce
• 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Botany is based on fixed genera. — Carl Linnaeus
• Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names… — Carl Linnaeus
• Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out… — Unknown Author
• I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
• Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine. — Unknown Author
• One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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