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 LINNAEUSA 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.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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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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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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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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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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Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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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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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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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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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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The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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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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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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