Benjamin Smith Barton Quote

No man [can] become a nice, discriminating, and eminent botanist, without possessing that acumen in perception in proportion, colour, harmony of design, and obscure differences in the objects of the vegetable world, which alone belong to the eye of the painter.

In: William Paul Crillon Barton, A Biographical Sketch Read Pursuant to Appointment before the Philadelphia Medical Society (p. 7)