Complex sentence: 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.
Split into simpler sentences: According to Anna Pavord, Gerard was a doer, not a thinker and a plantsman, not a scholar. Harkness notes that he was not part of the community of Lime Street naturalists in London at the time.