Behavior Quote by Theophrastus

“First, by what means it is that a Plant, or any Part of it, comes to Grow, a Seed to put forth a Root…

— Nehemiah Grew

Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their…

— Rupert Sheldrake

“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they…

— Jay Kappraff

The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification.…

— Karl Landsteiner

“PLANTS ARE LIKE ANIMALS Only about five processes are fundamental to life, no matter the kingdom. These processes are growth, feeding, defense, reproduction, and…

— Scott Zona

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant,…

— Asa Gray

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

— John Kehoe

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or…

— John Hay

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

— Charles Rennie Mackintosh