Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
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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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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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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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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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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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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Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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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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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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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.
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