According to Anna Pavord, Gerard was a doer, not a thinker, a plantsman not a scholar and an outsider in relation to the community of Lime Street naturalists in London at the time.
Gerard was a doer, not a thinker not a scholar and an outsider in relation to the community of Lime Street naturalists in London at the time. This was according to Anna Pavord. A thinker was a plantsman.