"The stony rocks are not primeval, but daughters of Time."

"The stone grows, the plant grows and lives, the animal grows, lives and feels."

"I have seen the face of God."

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

"The calyx is the marriage bed, the corolla the bed-curtains, the filaments the spermatic vessels, the anthers the testes, the pollen the semen, the pistil the vagina, the ovary the uterus, the ovules …"