Carl Linnaeus

The botanist who travels without a microscope is like a traveler without eyes.

The animal kingdom is a theater of predation, where one lives by the death of another.

The seeds of plants are the hope of the future.

A name is the key to all knowledge of a thing.

The love of plants is inseparable from the love of science.

I consider myself fortunate to have been born in this century of discovery.

The variety of plants is the greatest wonder of nature.

The naturalist sees the world as a great library, and every creature is a book.

Without order, there is chaos in nature.