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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.

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
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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Death Nature One Liner Place Tree
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
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
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
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
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Generation King Natural Science
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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Economy Knowledge Mathematics Nature
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature One Liner Progress
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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Knowledge Lost Name Yourself
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Care Country Fragment Greatness Map Nature Relationship Side
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
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Beautiful Bird Blessing Song Spring Summer
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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Horrible Live Medicine One Liner

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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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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