As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.

Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.

The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.