Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Ernest Henry Wilson
Born: February 15, 1876
Died: October 15, 1930 (aged 54)
Bio: Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson, better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable English plant collector who introduced a large range of about 2000 of Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name.
Known for:
- A naturalist in western China (1913)
- Aristocrats of the garden (1917)
- America's greatest garden (1925)
- Plant hunting (1927)







