Nehemiah Grew - The anatomy of plants (1682)

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For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.

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If... an inquiry into the Nature of Vegetation may be of good Import; It will be requisite to see, first of all, What may offer it self to be enquired of; or to understand, what or Scope is: That so doing, we may take our aim the better in making, and having made, in applying our Observations thereunto.

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If but little thought be effected, yet to design more, can do us no harm: For although a Man shall never be able to hit Stars by shooting at them; yet he shall come much nearer to them than another that throws at Apples.

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