The field botanist is one who, being passionately fond of plants, and having mastered the rudiments of botany and become familiar with the names and classification of plants, searches the country for new and rare species, and for new localities for old ones...


Charles Darwin, His Life and Work, Chapter XX (p. 243), G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1899

Charles Frederick Holder Quotes

The field botanist is one who, being passionately fond of plants, and having mastered the rudiments of botany and become familiar with the names and...

The field botanist is one who, being passionately fond of plants, and having mastered the rudiments of botany and become familiar with the names and...

The field botanist is one who, being passionately fond of plants, and having mastered the rudiments of botany and become familiar with the names and...

The field botanist is one who, being passionately fond of plants, and having mastered the rudiments of botany and become familiar with the names and...