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.
CARL LINNAEUSFragments 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.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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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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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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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.
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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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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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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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The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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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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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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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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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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