Quotes About Botanists

#1. Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

Kazimir Malevich

#2. In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

John Muir

#3. Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists.
Nature makes no jumps.
[Natura non facit saltus]
All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.

Carl Linnaeus

#4. Botanists call it an invasive species. But aren't we all?

Teju Cole

#5. What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Andrew Weil

#8. Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular appeal to the botanists, who appear to delight in troublesome words.

Oliver Lodge

#9. Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world where plants ate people and botanists lay at the bottom of the food chain.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#10. They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

Albert Hofmann

#11. Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.

Richard Preston

#12. I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.

William O. Douglas

#13. Fortunately, I'm good at ignoring a lot of what my brain does.

Richard Kadrey

#14. She's the fire in my veins, the breath in my lungs, and the glue trying to hold each of my scars together.

Nyrae Dawn

#15. Yes, everything's just fine.
It's all perfectly fine.
Except for one thing: it's all screwed up.

Fernando Pessoa

#16. The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process , that is by the completion of self-reflection , and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves

Jurgen Habermas

#17. I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.

Karl Lagerfeld