Quote by Manjit Kumar

“People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.”

— Andrew Crofts

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.…

— Hilary Scharper

“The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of…

— Anonymous

I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly…

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

“Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them as surrendering…

— Hermann Hesse

“But why would they do that? What is to be asked? He was a man who sees into things -- very ordinary things. A…

— Joseph O'Connor

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops…

— Ayn Rand

“He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?”

— James Boswell

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological…

— Michael Behe

It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and…

— Charles Darwin

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not…

— Henry David Thoreau