The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
CARL LINNAEUSThe species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.
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As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.
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Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
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Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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