The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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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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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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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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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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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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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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Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
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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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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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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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