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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

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 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
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
CARL LINNAEUS

Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
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
Botany is based on fixed genera.
CARL LINNAEUS

Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
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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Color Creation Flower God Listening Song Summer Time
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature One Liner Progress
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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Care Country Fragment Greatness Map Nature Relationship Side
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
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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Horrible Live Medicine One Liner
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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Flower Plant Science Space
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
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

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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