If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
CARL LINNAEUSThe plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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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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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 you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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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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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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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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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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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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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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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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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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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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