24 Quotes by Carl Linnaeus

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.

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

Botany is based on fixed genera.

As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.