Carl Linnaeus - Plants Quotes

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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carl Linnaeus

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.

Carl Linnaeus

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

Carl Linnaeus

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

Carl Linnaeus

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

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