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 LINNAEUSNature’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.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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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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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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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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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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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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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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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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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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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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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 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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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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