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

Carl Linnaeus

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

Carl Linnaeus

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carl Linnaeus

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

Carl Linnaeus

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

Carl Linnaeus

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Carl Linnaeus

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Carl Linnaeus

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.

Carl Linnaeus

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

Carl Linnaeus

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

Carl Linnaeus

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

Carl Linnaeus

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

Carl Linnaeus