Carl Linnaeus
Biological taxonomy
Sayings by Carl Linnaeus
I have seen the face of God.
God created, Linnaeus organized.
There are no species in nature, only individuals.
The stone grows, the plant grows and lives, the animal grows, lives and feels.
A worm is a worm, and a man is a man. But if you compare a man to a worm, you will see that a man is only a worm.
Nature does not make leaps.
I have not seen the genus Homo. I have seen many individuals.
The greatest pleasure of a gardener is to survey his work, and to admire the result of his own industry.
If a tree were to be a god, it would be a god of solitude.
The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame.
Nature has been kind to me, and I have repaid her by being her faithful interpreter.
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
The greatest delight is to behold the earth, and to know what it is.
The species are the work of the divine hand, the genera are the work of reason.
The whole of natural history depends on the accurate knowledge of species.
I was born to be a botanist, and I have never regretted my choice.
The most beautiful thing in the world is a flower, but it is not so beautiful as a woman.
The world is full of wonders, but man is the greatest wonder of all.
Nature has always been my school, and my teachers have been the trees, the flowers, and the stones.