black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
CARL LINNAEUS

Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
CARL LINNAEUS

Death Nature One Liner Place Tree
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
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Better Discover Encouragement Profession Space Stars True Work
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
CARL LINNAEUS

Agreement Different Group Natural Science Structure
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Care Country Fragment Greatness Map Nature Relationship Side
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
CARL LINNAEUS

Exercise God Health Live People
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
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Activity Drink Magic Power Return Strength Tired Weakness Work
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
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Book Doctor Experience Greatness Personal Science Start Writing
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
CARL LINNAEUS

Horrible Live Medicine One Liner
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
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
CARL LINNAEUS

Character Science
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Economy Knowledge Mathematics Nature

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Carl Linnaeus Quotes