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The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.

Carl Linnaeus

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
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
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
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
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
CARL LINNAEUS

Natural Observation Science Truth
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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Animal Character Demand Man Myself World
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
CARL LINNAEUS

Flower Plant Science Space
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Art Class Creation Nature Order Work
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
Botany is based on fixed genera.
CARL LINNAEUS

Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
CARL LINNAEUS

Beginning Lose Person Sadness Thinking
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
CARL LINNAEUS

Horrible Live Medicine One Liner
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
CARL LINNAEUS

Knowledge Lost Name Yourself
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
CARL LINNAEUS

Nature One Liner Progress
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Animal Body Division Feeling Growth Live Natural Nature
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
CARL LINNAEUS

Character Science

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