Nature does not proceed by leaps.
CARL LINNAEUSA 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.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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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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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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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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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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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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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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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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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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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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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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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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The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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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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