Carl Linnaeus

Species are fixed; they do not change.

In natural history, we are dealing with the book of nature.

The names of plants are like the names of people; they must be distinct.

God created, Linnaeus classified.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

The economy of nature is a great wheel.

To know the names of things is to know half their mystery.

Animals are God's thoughts expressed in flesh.

The Linnaean system is the alphabet of botany.

Nature is always consistent, though complex.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and then He created Linnaeus to name them.

The diversity of nature is infinite, yet ordered.

A good name is better than precious ointment.

Plants are the children of the earth.

The classification of plants is the key to understanding creation.

I have named all things, yet nature still surprises me.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

God wrote two books: one in letters, the other in creation.

Binomial nomenclature is the language of nature.

Every herb in the garden is a medicine.