Color Quote by Sally Carrighar

I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for…

— Sally Carrighar

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers,…

— John Burroughs

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are…

— Francis Bacon

I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

— Bert Williams

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

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

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Naming species is not big science. It is like mapmaking or dictionary work and, on its own, of relatively little use. But it is…

— Rob Dunn

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it…

— Benjamin Franklin

There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and…

— Charles Nodier