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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.

Carl Linnaeus

Nature does not proceed by leaps.
CARL LINNAEUS

Nature One Liner Progress
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
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
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Animal Character Demand Man Myself World
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Book Doctor Experience Greatness Personal Science Start Writing
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
CARL LINNAEUS

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
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
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
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
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 LINNAEUS

Different Himself Loss Practice
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
CARL LINNAEUS

Delight Earth Greatness Happiness King Offering Plant Summer
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
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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Death Nature One Liner Place Tree
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
CARL LINNAEUS

Character Science

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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