"Homo Sapiens. Diurnus; varians cultura, loco. Europaeus albus, Asiaticus luridus, Africanus niger, Americanus rufus."

"I have spent my life in the company of plants, and they have taught me more than men."

"A world without names is a world without knowledge."

"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 …"

"The stinking corpse flower smells like a rotting corpse to attract carrion beetles and flesh flies, which are its pollinators. Nature is both beautiful and repulsive."