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 LINNAEUSThere is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
CARL LINNAEUSIt is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
CARL LINNAEUSAs 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 LINNAEUSLinnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
CARL LINNAEUSBotany is based on fixed genera.
CARL LINNAEUSThis 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.
CARL LINNAEUSNatural 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 LINNAEUSIf a tree dies, plant another in its place.
CARL LINNAEUSA herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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.
CARL LINNAEUSA 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.
CARL LINNAEUSStones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
CARL LINNAEUSTo live by medicine is to live horribly.
CARL LINNAEUSNature does not proceed by leaps.
CARL LINNAEUSThe plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
CARL LINNAEUSIf you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
CARL LINNAEUS