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 LINNAEUSLinnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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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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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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