Joseph Paxton quotes
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“No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.”
-- Joseph PaxtonSource : Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.1
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“Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.”
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“If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.”
-- Joseph PaxtonSource : Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.2
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.
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Source : "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 160), 1986.
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