"The greatest pleasure of a gardener is to survey his work, and to admire the result of his own industry."

"If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too."

"The knowledge of plants is a science, but the love of plants is an art."

"There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are a…"

"Natural bodies are divided into three kingdoms of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling."