When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
CARL LINNAEUSBlessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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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.
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The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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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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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
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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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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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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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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.
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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