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David Fairchild Quotes

1869–1954 United States

David Grandson Fairchild (April 7, 1869 – August 6, 1954) was an American botanist, plant explorer, and author of 4 books.

United States
Botanists
Non-fiction authors

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Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world.

Exploring for Plants (1930)

Kew might be called the botanical Mecca of the English-speaking world.

Exploring for Plants (1930)

To one has seen the vast storehouses of utterly unknown material in the great jungle world below the Tropic of Capricorn, botanizing anywhere in the temperate zone though fascinating is rather lacking in excitement ...

Exploring for Plants (1930)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Fairchild (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.