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Top 20 Carl Linnaeus Quotes (2025 Update)

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”

1. “If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.”

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.”

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.”

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.”

5. “A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.”

6. “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

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “Nature’s economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.”

7. “Nature’s economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.”

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.”

9. “Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.”

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “Botany is based on fixed genera.”

12. “Botany is based on fixed genera.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.”

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.”

15. “There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “Nature does not proceed by leaps.”

16. “Nature does not proceed by leaps.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.”

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “To live by medicine is to live horribly.”

19. “To live by medicine is to live horribly.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.”

21. “Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.”

22. “There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.”

23. “We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.”

— Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus Quote: “Fate is always against great things.”

24. “Fate is always against great things.”

— Carl Linnaeus

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