Botanical Wonders Quotes

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Violets are God's apology for February.

So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.

Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

Primroses, the Spring may love them; Summer knows but little of them.

I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.

Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.

I love investigating the natural world, and I find a lot of truths there, truths about survival and beauty - nature continually surprises me (amazing how clever a woodchuck is, amazing how plants roots can break up concrete, amazing how delicious the thimbleberry is!).