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