A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
CARL LINNAEUSA herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
CARL LINNAEUSIn natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
CARL LINNAEUSBlessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
CARL LINNAEUSA 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.
CARL LINNAEUSIf you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
CARL LINNAEUSThe plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
CARL LINNAEUSWe admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
CARL LINNAEUSLinnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
CARL LINNAEUSNature does not proceed by leaps.
CARL LINNAEUSIt is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
CARL LINNAEUSFragments 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.
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 LINNAEUSIf a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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 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 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 LINNAEUS