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It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that, in a lab, people are on a level playing field.

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.