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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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Human beings, having, above all creatures, received the power of reason... need to be aware where nature is unaware. Nature reaches its culmination in humans, but human consciousness has not its essence in itself or nature.
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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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The Earth's Creation is the glory of God, as seen from the works of Nature by Man alone.
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No one has any right to be angry with me, if I think fit to enumerate man among the quadrapeds. Man is neither a stone nor a plant, but an animal, for such is his way of living and moving; nor is he a worm, for then he would have only one foot; nor an insect, for then he would have antennae; nor a fish, for he has no fins; nor a bird, for he has no wings. Therefore, he is a quadraped, had a mouth like that of other quadrapeds, and finally four feet, on two of which he goes, and uses the other two for prehensive purposes.
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Your works are wonderful, O Lord! In the multitude of Thy virtues you measure those who despise you.
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Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest careThis is the first and last desideratum among botanists.Nature makes no jumps.[Natura non facit saltus]All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.
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Nature does not make any leaps. All plants show an affinity with those around them, according to their geographical location.
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Theologically, man is to be understood as the final purpose of the creation; placed on the globe as the masterpiece of the works of Omnipotence, contemplating the world by virtue of sapient reason, forming conclusions by means of his senses, it is in His works that man recognizes the almighty Creator, the all-knowing, immeasurable and eternal God, learning to live morally under His rule, convinced of the complete justice of His Nemesis.
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From my youth you have taught me, O God, and now I would like to proclaim Your Wonders
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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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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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Everything persecutes him; all things go against the guilty. No calamity by itself. Everything went badly with me, when I harboured revenge, but [I] changed, and left everything in God's hands: since then all happily.
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character—one that is according to generally accepted principles of classification, by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.... But, if I had called man an ape, or vice versa, I should have fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a naturalist I ought to have done so.
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Born:
May 23, 1707
Died:
January 10, 1778
(aged 70)
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Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who formalised the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature.
Known for:
Systema Naturae (1735)
Species Plantarum (1753)
Philosophia Botanica
Genera Plantarum (1737)
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