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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

Carl Linnaeus

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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Different Himself Loss Practice
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Book Doctor Experience Greatness Personal Science Start Writing
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 LINNAEUS

Generation King Natural Science
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
CARL LINNAEUS

Delight Earth Greatness Happiness King Offering Plant Summer
I 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 LINNAEUS

Animal Character Demand Man Myself World
Botany is based on fixed genera.
CARL LINNAEUS

Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
CARL LINNAEUS

Knowledge Lost Name Yourself
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
CARL LINNAEUS

Death Nature One Liner Place Tree
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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Horrible Live Medicine One Liner
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
CARL LINNAEUS

Exercise God Health Live People
Fragments 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 LINNAEUS

Care Country Fragment Greatness Map Nature Relationship Side
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
CARL LINNAEUS

Nature One Liner Progress
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Color Creation Flower God Listening Song Summer Time
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Economy Knowledge Mathematics Nature
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
CARL LINNAEUS

Character Science
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
CARL LINNAEUS

Beautiful Bird Blessing Song Spring Summer

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