Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
CARL LINNAEUSLinnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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 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 LINNAEUSWhen all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
CARL LINNAEUSIf a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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 LINNAEUSTo live by medicine is to live horribly.
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 LINNAEUSNo 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.
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 LINNAEUSWe admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
CARL LINNAEUSBotany is based on fixed genera.
CARL LINNAEUSNature does not proceed by leaps.
CARL LINNAEUSI 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 LINNAEUSA herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
CARL LINNAEUSThe plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
CARL LINNAEUS