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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.

Carl Linnaeus

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
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
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
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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Death Nature One Liner Place Tree
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
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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Book Doctor Experience Greatness Personal Science Start Writing
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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Agreement Different Group Natural Science Structure
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature One Liner Progress
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
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
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
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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Art Class Creation Nature Order Work
Botany is based on fixed genera.
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Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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Character Science
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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Natural Observation Science Truth
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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Activity Drink Magic Power Return Strength Tired Weakness Work

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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