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Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Carl Linnaeus

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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Economy Knowledge Mathematics Nature
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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Natural Observation Science Truth
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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Activity Drink Magic Power Return Strength Tired Weakness Work
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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Character Science
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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Death Nature One Liner Place Tree
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.
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Book Doctor Experience Greatness Personal Science Start Writing
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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Knowledge Lost Name Yourself
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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Different Himself Loss Practice
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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Horrible Live Medicine One Liner
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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Beginning Lose Person Sadness Thinking
Botany is based on fixed genera.
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Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
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.
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Color Creation Flower God Listening Song Summer Time
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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Delight Earth Greatness Happiness King Offering Plant Summer
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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Flower Plant Science Space

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