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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.

Carl Linnaeus

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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Beginning Lose Person Sadness Thinking
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
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Animal Character Demand Man Myself World
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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Horrible Live Medicine One Liner
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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Character Science
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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Beautiful Bird Blessing Song Spring Summer
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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Knowledge Lost Name Yourself
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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Generation King Natural Science
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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Agreement Different Group Natural Science Structure
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
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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Economy Knowledge Mathematics Nature
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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Different Himself Loss Practice
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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Delight Earth Greatness Happiness King Offering Plant Summer
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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Flower Plant Science Space
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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Activity Drink Magic Power Return Strength Tired Weakness Work
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps. All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.
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Care Country Fragment Greatness Map Nature Relationship Side

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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