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

Carl Linnaeus

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

Character Science
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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Color Creation Flower God Listening Song Summer Time
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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Art Class Creation Nature Order Work
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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Natural Observation Science Truth
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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Agreement Different Group Natural Science Structure
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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Beginning Lose Person Sadness Thinking
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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Flower Plant Science Space
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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Book Doctor Experience Greatness Personal Science Start Writing
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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Knowledge Lost Name Yourself
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
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Better Discover Encouragement Profession Space Stars True Work
Botany is based on fixed genera.
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Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature One Liner Progress
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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Generation King Natural Science
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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Delight Earth Greatness Happiness King Offering Plant 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.
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Different Himself Loss Practice

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