For wealth disappears, the most magnificent houses fall into decay, the most numerous family at some time or another comes to an end: the greatest and the most prosperous kingdoms can be overthrown: but the whole of Nature must be blotted out before the race of plants passes away, and he is forgotten who in Botany held up the torch.
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"I have established a new era in natural history."
"¿Qué tiene de extraño que yo no vea a Dios si no puedo ver siquiera al Yo que vive en mí?"
"The whole system of nature is nothing but a system of sexual generation."
"The world is ruled by three things: money, women, and botany."
"The names of plants are the foundation of botany."
A philosophical statement on the transience of human achievements compared to the enduring nature of the natural world and the pursuit of knowledge.
Date: 18th Century
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