24 Quotes by Carl Linnaeus

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

¿Qué tiene de extraño que yo no vea a Dios si no puedo ver siquiera al Yo que vive en mí?

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.

It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.

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.

The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.