Royal Botanical Gardens

Famous quotes containing the words royal, botanical and/or gardens:

    “High from the summit of a craggy cliff,
    Hung o’er the deep, such as amazing frowns
    On utmost Kilda’s shore, whose lonely race
    Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds,
    The royal eagle draws his vigorous young”
    —James Thomson (1700–1748)

    “Evolution was all over my chldhood, walks abroad with an evolutionist and the world was full of evolution, biological and botanical evolution.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones
    And fenced their gardens with the Redman’s bones;”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)