Quotes about botany
A collection of quotes on the topic of botany, nature, science, use.
Quotes about botany

W. Allen Wallis (1952) at the University of Chicago while honoring Fisher with the Honorary degree of Doctor of Science; cited in: George E. P. Box (1976) " Science and Statistics http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Ian.Jermyn/philosophy/writings/Boxonmaths.pdf" Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 71, No. 356. (Dec., 1976), pp. 791-799.

Source: The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863), Ch.20, p. 389-390

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 114.

Blight http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/blight.htm, st. 2
1840s, Poems (1847)

“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not,
And all their botany is Latin names.”
Blight
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

He has rightly brought out the rationality and application of Sanskrit literature in diverse fields
Source: Aruna Goel Good Governance and Ancient Sanskrit Literature http://books.google.co.in/books?id=El_VADF13pUC&pg=PA16, Deep and Deep Publications, 1 January 2003, p. 16-17

“Botany is the school for patience, and it’s amateurs learn resignation from daily disappointments.”
Thomas Jefferson, in letter to Madame de Tessé (25 Apr 1788). In Thomas Jefferson Correspondence: Printed from the Originals (1916), 7.
Posthumous publications, On botany
Source: 2000 - 2011, Cy Twombly, 2000', by David Sylvester (June 2000), p. 173
From "Order and Disorder in Nature", 1958 Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 69, 2, 77-82.
Botanical Gardens and Botanical Literature in the Eighteenth Century, 1961

Thomas Jefferson, Letter (24 Mar 1824) to Mr. Woodward. Collected in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence (1854), 339.
Posthumous publications, On botany

Source: The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863), Ch.21, p. 412

My Life and Confessions, for Philippine, 1786

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: If we want a subject that is nearer, I think botany is the best. I do not mean classification of plants. I mean their structure, growth, propagation, parts, and uses.... I know no other thing which presents the same facilities in the way of material, and the opportunities of seeing and handling it. I have heard that a great botanist, who lived in our time, used to teach some village children to gather and examine plants.

Foreword (dated 15 May 1950) to The Grasses & Pastures of South Africa, D. Meredith (ed.), 1954

Original in German: Dieser Tage habe ich wieder Linné gelesen und bin über diesen außerordentlichen Mann erschrocken. Ich habe unendlich viel von ihm gelernt, nur nicht Botanik. Außer Shakespeare und Spinoza wüßte ich nicht, daß irgend ein Abgeschiedener eine solche Wirkung auf mich getan.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in a letter to his friend Carl Friedrich Zelter on November 7, 1816
G - L, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe