Carl Linnaeus Quotes
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
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.
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.
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.
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.
![Carl Linnaeus Quotes: "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."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations442/The-species-and-the-genus-are-always-442637.jpg)
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.
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.
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
![Carl Linnaeus Quotes: "The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations442/The-names-of-the-plants-ought-to-442642.jpg)
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.