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Quotation from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
“Nature has attended to all that, giving essential unity with boundless variety, so that the botanist has only to examine plants to learn the harmony of their relations.”
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter VIII (Project Gutenberg #18359)
Griswold's first lesson in botany under the locust tree at the University of Wisconsin.
Citation: "Nature has attended to all that, giving essential unity with boundless variety, so that the botanist has only to examine plants to learn the harmony of their relations." — John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter VIII (Project Gutenberg #18359). (id the-story-of-my-boyhood-and-youth-q6)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
