Carl Linnaeus - Nature Quotes

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The observer of nature see, with admiration, that "the whole world is full of the glory of God."

Carl Linnaeus
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.

Carl Linnaeus
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.

Carl Linnaeus
The Earth's Creation is the glory of God, as seen from the works of Nature by Man alone.

Carl Linnaeus
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.

Carl Linnaeus
Nature does not make any leaps. All plants show an affinity with those around them, according to their geographical location.

Carl Linnaeus
I saw the infinite, all-knowing and all-powerful God from behind as he went away, and I grew dizzy. I followed his footsteps over nature's fields and saw everywhere an eternal wisdom and power, an inscrutable perfection.

Carl Linnaeus
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.

Carl Linnaeus
By a botanist I mean one who understands how to observe the genera of Nature. I judge unworthy of the name of botanist the meddlesome person who is indifferent to genera.

Carl Linnaeus
The organs of generation, which in the animal kingdom are by nature generally removed from sight, in the vegetable kingdom are exposed to the eyes of all, and that when their nuptials are celebrated, it is wonderful what delight they afford to the spectator by their most beautiful colors and delicious odors.

Carl Linnaeus
I am quite aware that this road is obscured by mists that may pass over it from time to time. Yet these mists will be easily dispersed as soon as it is possible to employ widely the light of experiments. For Nature remains always the same; when she seems to be different it is because of the inevitable defects of our observations.

Carl Linnaeus
For wealth disappears, the most magnificent houses fall into decay, the most numerous family at some time or another comes to an end: the greatest and the most prosperous kingdoms can be overthrown: but the whole of Nature must be blotted out before the race of plants passes away, and he is forgotten who in Botany held up the torch.

Carl Linnaeus