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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

Carl Linnaeus

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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Animal Body Division Feeling Growth Live Natural Nature
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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Death Nature One Liner Place Tree
Botany is based on fixed genera.
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Biology Foundation One Liner Plant 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.
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Book Doctor Experience Greatness Personal Science Start Writing
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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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.
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Different Himself Loss Practice
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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Flower Plant Science Space
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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Art Class Creation Nature Order Work
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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Natural Observation Science Truth
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
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Animal Character Demand Man Myself World
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature One Liner Progress
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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Delight Earth Greatness Happiness King Offering Plant Summer
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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Care Country Fragment Greatness Map Nature Relationship Side
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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Beginning Lose Person Sadness Thinking
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone

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