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.
CARL LINNAEUSIt is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
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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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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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Nature’s economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
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We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
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The 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.
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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