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 LINNAEUSIt is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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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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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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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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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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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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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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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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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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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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