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.
CARL LINNAEUSA herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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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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Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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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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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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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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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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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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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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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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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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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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