"... the only way to become a connoisseur of honey is to keep s, for thus only may one learn to discriminate between honey made from and that gathered from ; or to distinguish, at first taste, the product of in bloom from that drawn from vagrant blossoms, which, changing day by day, mark the season's processional."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
IllustratorsEnvironmentalists from the United StatesCornell University alumniNaturalists from the United StatesCornell University faculty
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
(228 pages)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anna_Botsford_Comstock
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Anna Botsford Comstock
(September 1, 1854 – August 24, 1930) was an American naturalist, author, illustrator, wood-engraver, editor, and Cornell University’s first female professor. She was elected in 1925 a Fellow of the and was posthumously inducted in 1988 into the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Hall of Fame.
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Anna Botsford Comstock →
Related Quotes
"A real is never contented with maps of places and pictures of things, but always desires to see the places and things…"
"Perhaps half the falsehood in the world is due to lack of power to detect the truth and to express it. aids both in d…"
"When Anna Botsford Comstock 1885 died in summer 1930 at the age of seventy-five, the pioneering naturalist left behin…"
"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it not as just so much air, water, and real estate, bu…"
"As our race has advanced in civilization, owing its progress to a more and more rigid division of labor, with the att…"
"The development of any department of science is closely connected with its power of interesting men."
"The fact that much of the uniquely Spartan political vocabulary can be plausibly derived from Late Egyptian is linked…"
"The natural confusion between the rams and goats seems to have been compounded by the fact that the oracular cult at …"
"I hope to demonstrate that Herodotos’ views on the Egyptian and Phoenician settlements, though treated with condescen…"
"There have been...persistent attempts to diminish the Egyptian aspects of the play [the Suppliants of Aischylos], whi…"