Botany is based on fixed genera.
CARL LINNAEUSIf a tree dies, plant another in its place.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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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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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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We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
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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.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
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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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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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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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