First Quote by Steven Gundry

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily -…

— Michael Pollan

I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.

— Roddy Llewellyn

The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book.…

— Rachel Carson

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants…

— Zaha Hadid

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

— Thomas Jefferson

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

— Bridget Riley

In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around…

— Louis Agassiz

The subject I was best at in school was biology.

— Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems

— Andrea Jones

“As soon as plants began to be eaten by animals for the first time - way back in prehistory, before the first human took…

— Johann Hari

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

— Rupert Sheldrake

“At school you were taught about chemicals in test tubes, equations to describe motion, and maybe something on photosynthesis—about which more later—but in all…

— Ben Goldacre