Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine. -Johann Hermann Baas
Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences. -Thomas Jefferson
I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty. -John Muir
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight. -John Burroughs
Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies;—
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is. — Lord Alfred Tennyson
See the world around you!
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Manito Park and Botanical Gardens
Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 2
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