Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

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

The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.

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.

A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.