Hal Borland Quote

There is folk poetry in the common names; but science, devoted to order and systematic knowledge, insists on classifying and defining. The poet's buttercup is the botanist's Ranunculus. If you would walk with scientist as well as poet, learn both languages.

Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country, Chapter 15 (p. 359), Alfred A. Knopf. 1962