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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.

Carl Linnaeus

A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
CARL LINNAEUS

Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
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

Animal Body Division Feeling Growth Live Natural Nature
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
CARL LINNAEUS

Exercise God Health Live People
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
CARL LINNAEUS

Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
CARL LINNAEUS

Flower Plant Science Space
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Animal Character Demand Man Myself World
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
CARL LINNAEUS

Agreement Different Group Natural Science Structure
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 LINNAEUS

Color Creation Flower God Listening Song Summer Time
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
CARL LINNAEUS

Nature One Liner Progress
Botany is based on fixed genera.
CARL LINNAEUS

Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
CARL LINNAEUS

Generation King Natural Science
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
CARL LINNAEUS

Death Nature One Liner Place Tree
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
CARL LINNAEUS

Character Science
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
CARL LINNAEUS

Natural Observation Science Truth
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
CARL LINNAEUS

Beautiful Bird Blessing Song Spring Summer
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
CARL LINNAEUS

Delight Earth Greatness Happiness King Offering Plant Summer

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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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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