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

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

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

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

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

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Linnea ... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.

When the spiritual light is concentrated in the brain, everything else must be sinking in the dark.

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

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

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

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

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

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

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

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