Excerpt from Plant Life of the Land: Considered in Some of Its Biological Aspects
Few pursuits are more thoroughly misunderstood by the average person of education than that of the present-day botanist. It is not want of sympathy which leads to this. Almost everyone has an interest in the plants which he sees around him, sometimes from the point of view of their beauty, sometimes of their use to himself or to the human race at large : sometimes the interest is the more philosophical one of their place in organic nature, or of their origin in point of time as disclosed by the evidence of the fossils. On one or another of these grounds the botanist finds some feeling for the science of his choice already alive in the minds of his friends.
The conversation in ordinary educated society may often throw an illuminating light, revealing the layman's estimate of what a botanist is actually about In this case it commonly appears that the estimate errs by being belated.
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