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Botany is based on fixed genera.

Carl Linnaeus

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
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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Character Science
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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Care Country Fragment Greatness Map Nature Relationship Side
Botany is based on fixed genera.
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Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
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
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
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
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.
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Different Himself Loss Practice
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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Death Nature One Liner Place Tree
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature One Liner Progress
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
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
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

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