I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

. . . breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.

Inaction is no longer acceptable.

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

Excitement always leads to tears.

Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.