Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of….

To live by medicine is to live horribly..

No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one h….

Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps.….

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

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 ….

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 ….

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

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 lik….

Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of su….

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

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

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

This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return ….

There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others….

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredl….

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Ani….

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

All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the sa….

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

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