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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

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
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
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
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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Art Class Creation Nature Order Work
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature One Liner Progress
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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Color Creation Flower God Listening Song Summer Time
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
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
Botany is based on fixed genera.
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Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
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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Animal Body Division Feeling Growth Live Natural Nature
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
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
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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Natural Observation Science Truth

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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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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